Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 27th Apr 2009 21:20 UTC, submitted by SReilly
Hardware, Embedded Systems "A disc that can store 500 gigabytes of data, equivalent to 100 DVDs, has been unveiled by General Electric. The micro-holographic disc, which is the same size as existing DVD discs, is aimed at the archive industry. But the company believes it can eventually be used in the consumer market place and home players. Blu-ray discs, which are used to store high definition movies and games, can currently hold between 25GB and 50GB."
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actually...
by aperh on Wed 29th Apr 2009 01:24 UTC
aperh
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...SD cards and other similar flash memory based devices have a limited number of read/write cycles whereas an optical disc does not. No cigar.