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DVD-like optical disc could store 1.6 petabits (or 200 terabytes) on 100 layers (www.techspot.com)
submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Oh, is that what those multiples meant? I never realized.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It's the number of times faster it can read or burn compared to the original speed of reading and burning

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Memory limitations. Back then RAM was like 512 max

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

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.