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Well, GE is certainly interested in the copyright enforcement ideas behind this media, but there are still commercial uses. I suspect that a fairly common use
by irrelative 17y ago
Well, GE is certainly interested in the copyright enforcement ideas behind this media, but there are still commercial uses.
I suspect that a fairly common use for commercial users would be medical imaging storage -- huge amounts of data, but rarely accessed. A few other pluses for medical applications: hospitals care about volumetric density so that they don't have to store giant piles of USB keys; they don't want to have to maintain electronics on a per-disc basis so harddrives aren't the best solution.
Just a thought, but GE usually markets towards industries with technological applications rather than computer technologies themselves.
- ShabbyDoo 17y agoIs flash memory a good long-term backup medium? I have no idea if it degrades over time. It seems that one could design a flash-based "modular media system" (sorry, I have no better words) that would be as dense today as this GE optical disk but have the advantage of sizing up in the future. Say, 500 gigs per unit today, 1 TB a year from now, etc. So, density could improve without changing out media readers. Think about any camera flash card and the density/price improvements. Also, what if the requirement of 1Mx+ re-writability was removed? It's not like the hospital will re-use the media that many times if its purpose is long-term storage. What other requirements could be removed to improve density, cost, etc. ?