@ last some good size optical discs

[NICEBUD]

I know their dear @ the monent .I dont no if any one remembers CD burners when they first came out in the 80s but they were around this price.So you lot can finally start forgeting blue poo sh*t .

And guess what? ITS NOT FU*KING FONY/sony




http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080428-holographic-storage-150gb-discs-finally-...to-market.html

[MJPollard]

And in the meantime, those who need it can purchase external 500GB hard drives for about $150 apiece and have more storage now, rather than waiting for some still-vaporware unit that uses $180-apiece optical discs that don't even offer as much storage as an external hard drive. So I'm failing to see what the big deal is, especially since any talk of using these holographic discs for video applications (which I'd say is the primary interest of most people here) is years away from even approaching the galactic vicinity of reality.

[Midzuki]

Such technology still is in a very-primitive development stage.
Data-storage crystalloids are the future!

[SatStorm]

H264 on DVD-Rs are the only optical storage that we really have those days.
Author them as BluRay or HD DVDs and watch them on your TV using your BD or HD DVD player.

The alternative is to buy a hard disc and store them there. IMO, it is not the same thing, since I don't trust HDDs for my digital material and frequently back up must be done, which is not that easy.

Regarding the future, we can't predict it. 10 years ago, many of the things today we have for graded, was sci fi.

[jagabo]

And in the meantime, those who need it can purchase external 500GB hard drives for about $150 apiece

I like to use internal SATA hot-swap bays like these:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817989001

Then you can use US$90 500 GB (or whatever size you want) internal SATA drives. No cartridges are needed, you just slide the bare drives in and out of the bay.