"Researchers have developed a Very Big Disc™ that can store up to 200 terabytes of data..."

[ProfessorDetective]

Physical media may be making a comeback.

https://www.pcgamer.com/researchers-hav ... m-storage/

[Thebestoftherest]

How much of that for something, like could I put a full season series franchise on one?

[ProfessorDetective]

Damn it, just read the full article. This is enterprise-level tech aiming to supplant tape backups. So, I hope you're fine with downloading those shows from the disc onto the player before watching them. Because the read/write speeds are too slow for streaming video. Still, innovation is innovation.

[TGLS]

Damn it, just read the full article. This is enterprise-level tech aiming to supplant tape backups. So, I hope you're fine with downloading those shows from the disc onto the player before watching them. Because the read/write speeds are too slow for streaming video. Still, innovation is innovation.

For now. We went from 1x CD players to 52x CD players in like a decade. If we decide we need greater data density (i.e. 16K Media, absurdly high texture resolution) we might justify the ultra size disc. Or we might justify faster internet and ever larger hard drives.

[McAvoy]

How much of that for something, like could I put a full season series franchise on one?

200 terabytes is alot even if you use the largest size for each episode. Your run of the mill 40-45 minute episode 1080 resolution is around 2-8 gigabytes with some as high as 13. We are still talking about 2 tb for an entire series of Trek, TNG, VOY or DS9.

In other words, you probably could fill such space with 100 shows or more.

Keep in mind for reference MKV files for 720p shows which is good enough for your average monitor and also non-enhanced shows, runs between 175-225 MB for reference.

[Thebestoftherest]

SO one of these discs could hold all of Star Trek?

[TGLS]

SO one of these discs could hold all of Star Trek?

The bit-rate of 4K video is on the order of 50 megabits per second. If you had all of Star Trek recorded at that resolution (I guess you made an AI upscale or something?), and every episode was an hour long (big mistake, most star trek episodes are less than an hour, and the episode count I'm using includes Short Treks, Lower Decks, and Very Short Treks), you'd still have over 90% of the disc left unused.

[Thebestoftherest]

That amazing.

[McAvoy]

SO one of these discs could hold all of Star Trek?

Yes. Plus whatever you wanted to put on there. Make it a whole Science Fiction disc including movies.

For reference I have a 6 terabyte hard drive that stores documentaries from PBS to History Channel to BBC. I have a ton of movies from all genres plus TV shows of all genres, drama, comedy, science fiction, horror, action, fantasy plus even Disney. I also have NFL (American Football) stuff too. I am at a little half on usable space now.

Most of that is 720 just because MKV does struggle with some video players when it gets really big. At 200 terabytes, I could do more.

[BridgeConsoleMasher]

Physical media may be making a comeback.

I'm not sure the capacity restraints were really a driving force of the decline.