The whole internet on a floppy?!?

[Paladin]

Well, no...

But Maxell is releasing the first commercial application of their "holographic" disc technology late next year. Looking alot like an HD-DVD inside a floppy disc-style protector, the first product will hold 300GB of data and have a data transfer rate of 20mbps. They've gotten the technology up as high as 1.6TB and 120mbps, but that presumably will be for later release.

http://www.maxell-usa.com/Content/Pages/Page.asp?Section=pressreleases&department=maxellusa_pr&Line=datapr&Open=datapr41

[Circuit]

Awesome! Is this just for removable storage, though?

[Fitty]

http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/video/floppy.php

[Kermit]

Awesome! Is this just for removable storage, though?

With a 20mps transfer rate I certainly hope so. That's horrible. It would take over 4 hours to back up your drive.

Although with 300gb per disk I may be able to back up my entire pron collection.

And Fitty, I coundn't play your video file, but if it is what I think it is...

[Circuit]

Oops. Right, I read that as 20 gigs per second, which is just slightly more impressive. And with the article saying that the technology was superior to current hard drives, I never gave the transfer rate a second thought. So basically this is just like a fancy DVD burner with gigantic media. Still cool, but not as cool as I thought it was before.