300 gig disk

[mr moose]

huh ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_Tape-Open#Generations

I wasn't referring to industrial backup/data solutions (especially not tape) I was referring to consumer software like movies and programs were net access is not viable like initial os installation.

[mgsstar]

You could hold your OS,personal files, and games on this drive. I don't think a 4k blu ray will be 300gb because regular blu rays today are around 40gbs.

[sof006]

Hory carp! (miss spelling intentional)

 

I can store my entire laptop hard drive on just one disk!... then I can move it over to my desktop and access my entire laptop data from a disk on my desktop.

[Blade of Grass]

people still use disks? I though everything was on a harddrive, SSD, or getting streamed from the internet...

Imagine that you're a working professional photographer, and you just shot someones wedding. After the editing and selecting process, say you have 450 images. Each image is 10MBs, that's 4.5GBs of images. Now, if you had to deliever digital files to a client, you'd have three options. Upload to a file sharing/ftp site (would take forever), but a $10 usb, or use 1 $0.25 DVD

 

The choice is obvious.

[mr moose]

Imagine that you're a working professional photographer, and you just shot someones wedding. After the editing and selecting process, say you have 450 images. Each image is 10MBs, that's 4.5GBs of images. Now, if you had to deliever digital files to a client, you'd have three options. Upload to a file sharing/ftp site (would take forever), but a $10 usb, or use 1 $0.25 DVD

 

The choice is obvious.

My wedding photos came on a 16G sony USB drive. Its quicker, easier, much more convenient that optical and in the end I get a 16G drive.  It looks much better for his business.

[Blade of Grass]

My wedding photos came on a 16G sony USB drive. Its quicker, easier, much more convenient that optical and in the end I get a 16G drive.  It looks much better for his business.

How many photos did you get?

Also, how would it look better?

[mr moose]

How many photos did you get?

Also, how would it look better?

500 odd, only about 2 or 3 gigs worth, I can't quite remember.

 

The photo quality would be exactly the same, I meant the fact that I was given a USB drive as opposed to a disc looks better. To me anyway, I felt it was a more professional approach.

[1funnygame]

I think this might end up to be pretty cheap storage €/gig because there not going to sell a 4k movie for €100 and then most of it go to storage cost

[JordanMac]

"End of 2015" Not really soon...

 

Don't really see the point of it. Internet streaming is the way to go for movies.

the problem is that if a 4k film in 2 years is 300GB then most peoples internet speed won't be able to stream it and if they could they would go over download limits.

[JordanMac]

I see this being a move towards 4k bluray/dvd but it would be very good when the optical disk can hold 1TB, this would allow me to back up on a regular basis to optical disk.

[rashdanml]

Don't really see the point of it. Internet streaming is the way to go for movies.

That's assuming everyone has the speed and usage limits to support it. Average consumer doesn't have that everywhere. The max usage I can get right now is 300GB (only one provider actually gives unlimited at reasonable speeds), so that's basically the entire disc on one video.

 

Discs won't get phased out until Google Fiber and equivalent services become the standard that everyone has. Streaming isn't practical yet.