Thursday, June 20, 2002
1GB of optical storage?
Posted by Ed Hansberry in "NEWS" @ 08:30 AM
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=70&e=3&cid=70&u=/cn/20020620/tc_cn/937621
"Consumer-electronics giant Philips is demonstrating a prototype miniature disc drive that uses a coin-size disc capable of storing nearly twice as much data as a standard-sized CD. The drive uses 3cm discs that can store up to 1GB of data. Typical CDs, measuring 12cm in diameter, can hold up to 650MB of data. The prototype drive measures just 5.6 by 3.4 by 0.75cm--suitable for use in portable devices such as digital cameras, handhelds and cell phones--but the company is continuing to work to shrink the drive."
Moving parts, so the battery life won't be great, but it is cheaper than flash memory. I suspect too that 1GB is just the beginning. If they hit their 27GB targets for standard CD-sized disks, this should get 3-4GB before they are done. Given it will only have one "platter" it should fit in a CF-I slot. Perhaps even an SD slot with a protrusion for the drive. This will pretty much put an end to DataPlay's 500MB drives that still haven't really seen the light of day.
"Consumer-electronics giant Philips is demonstrating a prototype miniature disc drive that uses a coin-size disc capable of storing nearly twice as much data as a standard-sized CD. The drive uses 3cm discs that can store up to 1GB of data. Typical CDs, measuring 12cm in diameter, can hold up to 650MB of data. The prototype drive measures just 5.6 by 3.4 by 0.75cm--suitable for use in portable devices such as digital cameras, handhelds and cell phones--but the company is continuing to work to shrink the drive."
Moving parts, so the battery life won't be great, but it is cheaper than flash memory. I suspect too that 1GB is just the beginning. If they hit their 27GB targets for standard CD-sized disks, this should get 3-4GB before they are done. Given it will only have one "platter" it should fit in a CF-I slot. Perhaps even an SD slot with a protrusion for the drive. This will pretty much put an end to DataPlay's 500MB drives that still haven't really seen the light of day.
