GE Samples 500GB DVD-Sized Disc

With all of the talk about how discs will no longer be needed because it’s all “in the cloud,” it’s interesting to learn about the new disc developments. GE announced that they’ve been able to store 500GB of data onto a single DVD-sized disc, with the same write speed of a Blu-ray disc. For those of you who forgot, Blu-ray discs are 12x speed, which means either 400Mbps or 50MBps. GE used microholographic technology to cram that much data onto the single disc, as well as used multi-level writing which uses the entire volume of the disc as opposed to the surface, as current Blu-ray discs do. Read more on it here.