Laminated 400GB DVD coming soon
Found on The Inquirer on Sunday, 06 July 2008
Pioneer has developed a 16-layer read-only optical disc with a capacity of 400 gigabytes.
The laminated disks, which are effectively 16 layers of 25GB each sandwiched together, could go into mass production soon.
Pioneer will present the details of this research at the International Symposium on Optical Memory and Optical Data Storage 2008 to be held in Hawaii from July 13.
A DVD and read-only. Not that useful for backups; but then I doubt that those mediums will last long enough to be considered a backup medium. It's not really fascinating to re-burn all those plastic discs once a year or risk data loss.