"Sony" and "Panasonic" Announce 1TB Optical Discs
Sony and Panasonic recently announced from Tokyo, Japan, that they have formulated “Archival Discs” that will hold up to 1 TB of data. This news may leave Blu-Ray discs in fear of being tossed away so soon. The new discs will allow intergenerational compatibility between different formats, to ensure that data can be read as formats evolve.
The two companies plan to actively promote the new disc standard in the professional field in order to offer an effective solution for protecting valuable data in the future, with the objective of expanding the market for long-term digital storage solutions. They seem beneficial for HD video storing and compact large volume data storage.
Optical discs are known for their excellent properties that protect them from the environment. They are dust-resistant and water-resistant and can withstand changes in temperature and humidity when stored.
The two companies plan to release a 300 GB version of the discs in the summer of 2015. The plan is to then produce greater capacity discs as soon as possible, starting with 500 GB before producing 1 TB formats. Due to the inter-generation compatibility, the same hardware that will be introduced along with the 300 GB version, will be compatible with the 1 TB disc when it arrives. After the release of the 300 GB disc, signal processing improvements along with high linear density processing will work towards readying the 1 TB version.
To put this into perspective, current single-layer Blu-Ray discs hold up to 25 GB of data. Double-layer disc do exist but are not widely used. Remember 30 years ago when floppy discs were offering 750 kb of storage! It’s also quite a leap from the Sony Compact-Discs, introduced in the early 80′s, that offer 700 mb of storage. Data storage technology has certainly come a long way in terms of compact long term high volume data storage.
The partnership of the two companies may avoid format conflict and also both companies have a proven track record with Blu-Ray technology.
Panasonic had adopted a newly-developed changer system that together with RAID technologies has the promise to offer rapid data transfer performance of up to 216MB/s, while this year the company launched its LB-DM9 series of optical disc storage devices. This system utilizes a dedicated magazine of just 20.8mm thickness to house 12 100GB optical discs.
Sony has also developed new optical disc storage systems, including its XDCAM series of professional broadcasting products, which houses 12 optical discs within a compact cartridge as a single storage solution.
Sony and Panasonic recently announced from Tokyo, Japan, that they have formulated “Archival Discs” that will hold up to 1 TB of data. This news may leave Blu-Ray discs in fear of being tossed away so soon. The new discs will allow intergenerational compatibility between different formats, to ensure that data can be read as formats evolve.
The two companies plan to actively promote the new disc standard in the professional field in order to offer an effective solution for protecting valuable data in the future, with the objective of expanding the market for long-term digital storage solutions. They seem beneficial for HD video storing and compact large volume data storage.
Optical discs are known for their excellent properties that protect them from the environment. They are dust-resistant and water-resistant and can withstand changes in temperature and humidity when stored.
The two companies plan to release a 300 GB version of the discs in the summer of 2015. The plan is to then produce greater capacity discs as soon as possible, starting with 500 GB before producing 1 TB formats. Due to the inter-generation compatibility, the same hardware that will be introduced along with the 300 GB version, will be compatible with the 1 TB disc when it arrives. After the release of the 300 GB disc, signal processing improvements along with high linear density processing will work towards readying the 1 TB version.
To put this into perspective, current single-layer Blu-Ray discs hold up to 25 GB of data. Double-layer disc do exist but are not widely used. Remember 30 years ago when floppy discs were offering 750 kb of storage! It’s also quite a leap from the Sony Compact-Discs, introduced in the early 80′s, that offer 700 mb of storage. Data storage technology has certainly come a long way in terms of compact long term high volume data storage.
The partnership of the two companies may avoid format conflict and also both companies have a proven track record with Blu-Ray technology.
Panasonic had adopted a newly-developed changer system that together with RAID technologies has the promise to offer rapid data transfer performance of up to 216MB/s, while this year the company launched its LB-DM9 series of optical disc storage devices. This system utilizes a dedicated magazine of just 20.8mm thickness to house 12 100GB optical discs.
Sony has also developed new optical disc storage systems, including its XDCAM series of professional broadcasting products, which houses 12 optical discs within a compact cartridge as a single storage solution.
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