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Offline Clive

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Optical disc offers 500GB storage
« on: April 27, 2009, 19:10 »
A disc that can store 500 gigabytes (GB) of data, equivalent to 100 DVDs, has been unveiled by General Electric.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8021012.stm
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Re: Optical disc offers 500GB storage
« Reply #1 on: April 27, 2009, 21:09 »
That would tidy up my DVD and Blu-ray collection!  I wonder how long it would take to copy them all to a GE disc?
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Re: Optical disc offers 500GB storage
« Reply #2 on: April 27, 2009, 22:22 »
a while at current blu-ray burning speeds.
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Re: Optical disc offers 500GB storage
« Reply #3 on: April 28, 2009, 10:39 »
Handy for archiving a big HD though...
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