Cramming More Onto a CD-R
No … sorry … I haven’t found the secret that many people are looking for but Iomega just might be close. Fred Thomas is chief technologist with Imoega’s Advanced Technology Group and he sees that, withing the next few years, 300GB stored on something the size of today’s CDR is quite possible.
Iomega are developing a system that will allow 4 bits of data to be stored in the same space as 1 bit of data is currently stored. And if you wondered why that is so important let’s try and put it in some sort of perspective.
By law most companies are required to store every bit of information that they send or receive and that means that the biggest companies are regularly backing up huge amounts of data. In 2004 companies in the Asia Pacific region stored 65% more data than they did in 2003 and purchased over 76 petabytes of disk space to do it.
Damn … when I started with my first computer it was exciting just to own one 5.25 floppy disk and those disks first appeared in 1976.