25TB titanium oxide 'super discs' in the works?

**kazuya** · 27.05.10, 23:21

Japanese researchers have discovered a material that could be used to make low-cost discs with a storage capacity that puts existing storage media to shame. Described as a new crystal form of titanium oxide, the material switches from a black-color metal state that conducts electricity to a brown semiconductor when exposed to light, according to Shin-ichi Ohkoshi of the University of Tokyo. That transformation occurs at room temperature and provides an on-off function for data storage.

25TB titanium oxide 'super discs' in the works? - TechSpot News

**Ticko** · 27.05.10, 23:24

wow those tings would be amazing i can't wait to get my hands on some real space for all these torrennts i got.

**tokiodrift1** · 27.05.10, 23:51

i am not expecting one of these in the next 8 years.
I dont even know what to do with uneraseable disk with 25TBs.
imho a 25TB-HDD would be good, maybe for 100 $ each.

**saebrtooth** · 28.05.10, 04:55

Thats 5844 DVD5s, thats a whole lota space. Maybe 10 years time? by that time holodisc will be competing with it

**slikrapid** · 28.05.10, 16:47

whatever it may be, hopefully we can get a higher level of data availability/readability/durability without having to worry about TB's of lost data due to some unexpected external factor or internal malfunction

**SBfreak** · 28.05.10, 16:58

Spoiler Offtopic:

**caballero** · 28.05.10, 17:02

I have a "phobia" from storing on disks (although the hard drive is a disk as well

) but I mean portable disk because the chances of them getting corrupted or lost are high even if you look after them. However, I could do with a 25TB hard drive

Originally Posted by SBfreak

Spoiler Offtopic:

Suicidal

, what will happen if the disk brakes, 3 years of "torrenting"

**SBfreak** · 28.05.10, 17:07

Anon always makes backups don't worry

**Renk** · 28.05.10, 18:36

Originally Posted by SBfreak

Spoiler Offtopic:

Are you sure ?

**SBfreak** · 28.05.10, 18:48

Why don't you ask him?

**anon** · 28.05.10, 21:06

Originally Posted by a007_hacker

what will happen if the disk brakes, 3 years of "torrenting"

If the disc brakes he I will just pick it up.

Now, if it breaks... that's something different.

**saebrtooth** · 29.05.10, 05:22

Would you rather carry a 25TB DVD size dics or a micro sd 250GB?

**tokiodrift1** · 29.05.10, 14:36

Do you know hard is it to lose a 250gb MicroSD-Card,
it is that big as your finger-nail of your little finger.

**saebrtooth** · 29.05.10, 15:51

yeah but u could put it in ur wallet or something. eventually they will and it would so great to have

**anon** · 29.05.10, 17:40

Originally Posted by saebrtooth

Would you rather carry a 25TB DVD size dics or a micro sd 250GB?

The DVDs, because of the higher storage space. MicroSD cards could be easily lost like tokiodrift1, but I wouldn't be carrying them everywhere... so more space = win-win.