500gb on a cd

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8021012.stm

I wonder how much that would cost...

Oh, that disk is larger than the size of my hardrive.

that thing is 46.6 times bigger than my old hard drive! i wonder if a whole game went on it how epicly long it would take to finish...

thats two times larger than my hard drive

rush n kaos · #4that thing is 46.6 times bigger than my old hard drive! i wonder if a whole game went on it how epicly long it would take to finish...

Maybe a year? Lol.

Replying to #6

hmm... i say more. look at some of the games now, how long they take from start to finish. but especially Blizzard's stuff! with them, it probably take at least like 3-5 years, and it's awesome would completely steamroll every single game in existance XD

[quote="rush n kaos"]hmm... i say more. look at some of the games now, how long they take from start to finish. but especially Blizzard's stuff! with them, it probably take at least like 3-5 years, and it's awesome would completely steamroll every single game in existance XDEven movies will take many years to finish! Yay! couch potatoes are now planted!

IIRC DVD and Blu-Ray is also call optical disk......so that 500gb optical disk isnt really a CD....its a new type of optical disk....i wonder what it would be call?

big vault optical disk

thats
WOAH.
thats crazy.

it's not a CD, and the access time is likely quite poor for a drive of that capacity.

I can just imagine it...Seph having RomUlation.net's entire library of games in two or three of those.Holy Christ!!

so the romulation can be held in two cd-like thingies

Replying to #14

damn that would be pretty dangerous

Replying to #15

very handy too.

crazytuna · #15damn that would be pretty dangerous

knowing seph he'd have a few too many drinks, try jam them into his stereo, yell and scream when he realizes they wont play music, and end up scratching, snapping or otherwise breaking the disks and having to start romu from scratch again :P

Replying to #17

wouldn't be the first time :P

Something of the sort really happened? Or were you just teasing him loony?

RomUlation has a fair few more files than 1.5 TB. :)Regardless, we already have 24 TB of space. (12 TB since it's in raid)I don't care too much about the storage capacity, what matters most is reading speed and primary random reads.