Developed new optical-disk storage technology, which stacks two or more recording surfaces on top of each other.
Many of those books, "chopped and chucked in the cause of filming died for nothing," Mr. Baker writes, because microfilm has become increasingly obsolete and will have to be converted to optical disk for digital storage and retrieval, a process, he argues, that will be enormously expensive both to carry out and to maintain.
While we maintain that Blu-ray represents the end of the optical disk for media storage, there are signs that we might be wrong.
A database is stored as a file or a set of files on magnetic disk or tape, optical disk, or some other secondary storage device.
This technique is widely used in micro-electronics industry to manufacture the integrated circuits, magnetic and optical disks for data storage, colour television screens and optical mirrors etc.
Brown, meanwhile, recently announced a partnership with optical storage company TeraStor (FORBES, Mar. 24) to develop new kinds of disk storage that combine optics with magnetics.
Spindle motors using bonded Nd magnets are primarily used in hard disk drives and optical disk drives, and the design and operation of these two storage devices are also discussed and compared.
I am at once skeptical that this is true – it sounds wildly far-fetched to me, even given the horrible decisions made by CE makers in the past – but it also points to a focus on a networked console with loads of storage space more akin to a Steam box than an optical disk player.
As devices move away from spinning platters – I predict that in the next decade we will see the end of the optical disk and in another 15 years the end of the hard drive – to solid state storage.
