How to fit 1000 Terabytes on a DVD

[noemi7]

No joke http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2013/06/how-to-fit-1000-terabytes-on-a-dvd/
Hopefully this scientific trick will find soon implementation

[Cornucopia]

Soon? No.
They've had Holographic discs (which now can store up to 6TB) in the lab since 2004, but you don't see those on the shelves at best buy because the technology (both disc materials+construction, and burner/reader materials+construction) is still not economical enough to mass market.

10-20 years, maybe (earlier for BigData, much later for consumers).

Scott

[jagabo]

Note they did not write 1000 TB on a disc. The showed a method that could write dots small enough that a DVD sized disc could hold 1000 TB. There's a long way between a scientific demonstration of such a technique and a commercial application.

[Hoser Rob]

It's not good enough that they can do it in a lab. The technology has to be scalable, which is probably why it's been around for almost 10 years with no commercial application. It's also why the humble transistor is going to be powering your computer for quite some time.