Why This New CD Could Change Storage

The mixing of the use of bits and bytes is driving me nuts: 1.6 Petabits = 0.2 Petabytes.

With physical media going away and everything being digital "Not owned" by us, I fully 1000% welcome physical media disks back with open arms.

Would love to see this come back. Local, hard, disconnected storage is guaranteed security

Maybe put the disc in a casing like the mini disc. Losing 700 MB is one thing but losing 1.6 petabits because your disc got scratched up or stained would be a bit hard to swallow.

So, basically, it's possible to store 200tb on a CD but very expensive and time consuming to read or write on it. But if the read/write speeds improve, data centers can use this tech.

I swear bro 1970s to early 2000s Japan was an engineering haven.

I remember switching from cassettes to cds and feeling like I lived in the year 3000

Modern videogame developers are worried that if this CD tech catches on they'd be obligated to release finished videogames.

I still buy all my music on CD. It feels nice to support the artist, have physical ownership of the music I enjoy, and satisfy that collector itch. Sometimes I wonder what the younger generations will be nostalgic for, when their entire youth will have been tied to a subscription service.

It’s 2025 October and nothing has changed.