With the want for more storage facilities by various users and business, one of the prominent IT companies in the world the Mempile Company has come up with a solution to the current need. The Israel based company is going to demonstrate a new medium that would facilitate to store half a terabyte of data on a DVD disc. This is made up of a special polymer.

The company has also claimed confidently, that it would be producing TeraDisc DVDs, which would store upto a massive size of 1 tera byte. This would be seen within the next few years. Seems like this would set a new revolution in the storage business.

Todays HD disks, i.e. the high definition disk could store upto 60 GB. We are talking about the HD-DVD and Blue Ray formats. The TeraDisc DVD could suti to hold up to 250,000 high-resolution photos or MP3s. This is about 40 times the content of a HD-DVD, or 115 DVD movies. Tom Coughlin, a storage analyst at Coughlin Associates says that within the next 10 years, both HD products consumer will increase more than 10 times their current resolution. To quote his words, he says that, if the HD is now 25 GB, then within the next 10 years we would be having upto 300 GB disks.

The Mempile’s technology would be selling at the price of $3000 to $4000. Within 2011, the company is aiming to produce the storage disk for a storage capacity of 700 GB. This would be sold at a price of $30.

The HD-DVD technology reflects the laser ray back and this causes a slight deterioration in the read signal, that produces some background noise. Their would give a cleaner and more efficient signal.

Drive Components include:

• CD-like system for tracking
• Red read/write modelocked picosecond laser
• Sensitive detector for read signal (450-600 nm)
• Two dichroic elements
• Focus offset control (to pick the desired working layer)
• Independent servo systems for the tracking and read/write lasers
• Variable spherical aberration correction

An another technology with regard to the storage has been developed by the Plasmon PLC, that makes use of the Blu-Ray’s blue-laser approach. Sound too interesting, isn’t it. Their technology is called the Ultra-Density Optical. This could write up to 60GB on a proprietary DVD format platter for corporate data archive use. The company has planned to develop 240GB platters in the near future.
Via Mempile.