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DVD-like optical disc could store 1.6 petabits (or 200 terabytes) on 100 layers

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DVD-like optical disc could store 1.6 petabits (or 200 terabytes) on 100 layers

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Researchers at the University of Shanghai for Science and Technology have developed an optical disc with a capacity of over a petabit of data, equivalent to well...
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    It’s the number of times faster it can read or burn compared to the original speed of reading and burning

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      Does the ‘original speed’ mean what the natural playback would have been? So 60 minutes of audio burned by a x60 drive would take one minute?

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        Yes, but I think there was some overhead in the process that was slower.

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          Memory limitations. Back then RAM was like 512 max

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            You are correct. However, I mean initialization and finalizing.

            https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CD-R Looks like a 52x wrote at 7.8 MB/s. Things have changed.

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