Current DVD Standards to Become Obsolete With New 1.6TB DVDs

I remember when I used to be amazed at how a DVD could hold 4.7GB of data. It is laughable now. Researchers from Swinburne University of Technology have come up with the technology to potentially expand today’s DVD capability by 10,000.

The method, called Multiplexed optical recording, creates a sort of 5th dimension of storage using “polarization and gold nanorods to reflect light.” So far, this way of recording has been able to store 1.6TB of data on a disk. As it is, 1TB of data can already hold 300 full movies or 250,000 songs.

By using nanotechnology, more can fit on the disk without actually having to make a larger disc itself. DVD’s today use only 3D tp store data while the new technology adds a fourth and fifth by using light and nano-material, to create a color dimension and a polarization dimension.

This technology has the potential to create discs with a capacity of 10 TB in the future. This would greatly cut down on the storage space of so much data. The medical, military and space fields will find this new storage very useful. I even would finally have a suitable place to store all of my TB’s of scientific data and videos/films which are very, very important to me.