Prototype 150GByte Read-Only Disk Demonstrated

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Prototype 150GByte Read-Only Disk Demonstrated 73

Posted by Hemos on Monday October 04, 1999 @11:56AM from the i-want-a-mp3-drive-for-it dept.

Generic Specialist writes "A fully working prototype of a 150GByte read-only disk has been demonstrated by C3D Inc. The clever part is their "Fluorescent Multilayer Disk" technology. Rather than having only one or two layers (as per CD-ROMs, DVD) these new disks have 10 layers, which can be read simultaneously giving data transfer rates exceeding 1 gigabyte per second. Now, if only they could produce a read-write version... "

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