Re: [offtopic] storage like you've always wished it could be: HUGE

[DPH <rally2xs@compuserve.com>]

'Tis awesome all right.  But since the disk is totally transparant,
where do
you put the label?

Kent Paul Dolan wrote:

> Originally posted to an internal newsgroup:
>
> > Newsgroups: whistle.chat
> > Subject: Re: whacky clear 160(sic) GB cd's in our futire?
> > In-Reply-To: <38446A4C.C662035F@whistle.com>
>
> Paul,
>
> In email message <38446A4C.C662035F@whistle.com>, Paul Ozzello wrote:
>
> > http://www.theregister.co.uk/991130-000011.html
>
> W. O. W. !!!
>
> Now that is MY kind of personal storage capability.
>
> Let's see; seven 140 GByte CD-ROMs makes about a terabyte, a typical
> jukebox of 100 is 14 terabytes, pretty soon you're talking hosting
> your own web open text search site in a ten or fifteen square foot
> corner of a home office (which is about the cross section of the
> optical fiber bundle you'd need coming though the wall to serve
> all that data) ;-) as soon as they come out with the read-write
> version.
>
> If you put them in racks instead of just dumping the jukeboxes under
> the desk with the dust-bunnies, you could probably manage a pretty
> decent on demand full length "full HDTV screen" feature classical
> movie server in a spare bedroom.
>
> Thanks.  I use to do research for the US DoC on high density, long
> lived (centuries) storage systems, back in the mid 1970s when
> nothing like that was available anywhere.  I'm sure you just "made"
> my last quarter century, and possibly my waning millennium.
>
> Thanks again, and thanks once more.
>
> The programmer not made more cheerful by that information has
> no soul.
>
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>
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> Kent Paul Dolan.
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