Philips Blue Laser Itty Bitty Disc Drive

Acid-F1ux writes "Over at news.com they are running a story about how 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. "

Sweet As...

[WellHungYungWun]

This will be a wonderful tool for our business. We store a lot of items on cd media, and our vault is filling up at an incredible rate. We use several medium's to back up our data, but some clients require their data be kept on cd's to avoid having to buy a 4000 dollar dlt drive if they need some of the data. We could save a lot of room if we used this instead. I am all for it, since the 3" discs didn't quite work out the way Sony wanted. Hoorah!

Re:coin sized?

[Anonymous Coward]

Read the article. The idea is to stuff 27GB on a cd-sized disc.

Re:creating the market

[getha]

I think he means the market for optical data storage in general... Seeing as Philips was the one inventing the CD, this seems about right...

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Re:Cool to see Philips designing some new standard

[Anonymous Coward]

Philips' track record (no pun intended) is better than that. Philips also invented the cassette (for you youngsters, it was an ancient medium for recording music). Nostradamus, I mean the the RIAA and its co-conspirators, screamed from the roof-tops some 30+ years ago that it was going to kill the music industry since it was a vehicle for rampant piracy - as you can see, the RIAA is always right.

Anyway, Philips thought that it was only good enough for 'talking letters' (and it was then). It took a few Japanese companies to convince Philips that the cassette could be tweeked for music, but Kudos to Philips, who did invent it.

Re:Speed?

[Galvatron]

1x is always defined as the speed of the first drive commercially available. So a 32x cdrom drive is thirty-two times as fast as the first cdrom drives built. Likewise, a 4x DVD-rom drive is four times as fast as the first DVD-rom drives, which is much faster than four times as fast as the first cd rom drives.