Fujifilm To Bring 1 TeraByte Optical Disc By 2015 – Will You Use It Then?

Storage in optical discs is becoming a bit old-school, but innovation regarding the same doesn’t have to take a backseat. Fujifilm, the multinational imaging company, has a research team working on a new recording method for multilayer optical discs, that uses two-photon absorption to generate heat to bring a one terabyte optical disc. Making a combination of this method with heat-mode recording, the researchers used the technology to apply a laser light with a high energy density to instantaneously increase the temperature of a minute area of a recording material. Thus making multilayer recording of up to 25 Gbytes per layer possible. We all love Blu-rays with 25 GB capacity that take care of most of our data. But with this tech on the verge, we are looking at an additional 20 layers per side of a disc, so what we get is a one terabyte storage capacity. And Fujifilm says that this kind of a storage capacity may come to the market of discs by 2015.

The team at Fujifilm simplified the whole manufacturing process by using “web coating” to form the recording. So, their method completes forming eight layers in just 58 seconds. With an aim to collaborate with the popular names among disc and drive makers, Fujifilm plans to bring a good 15 terabyte optical disc pretty soon.

The research work is indeed a major achievement in digitization and storage, but aren’t we moving towards a future in the cloud? There are debates among technologists about the safekeeping of data over the internet and the fight between soft copy & hard copy is an undying one, but we would definitely want to know – Do our readers think they will be usong 1 TB discs three years from now? If yes, what for? And if no, why so? Shoot in the comments below.