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[DrunknMunky Veteran]

Sony unveils next generation of ?Archival? 300GB-1TB Blu-ray discs

Monday, 10th March 2014 12:39 GMT By Dave Cook

 

Sony has announced the next evolution of its Blu-ray format. The new Archival Disc medium aims to offer up to 1TB of storage on one disc over time.

 

Over on Sony?s official site, the manufacturer confirmed that the first wave of Archival Disc Blu-rays will drop around summer 2015, and will offer 300GB of storage. Sony hopes to increase this limit to 500GB and then again to 1TB in future iterations of the medium. Blu-rays currently offer 50GB of storage.

The Archival Disc Blu-rays were developed as part of a collaboration between Sony and Panasonic, with a view to delivering a next-generation optical disc format for the long-term storage of data. The logo seen above will appear on Archival Disc products in due time, and will receive promotion from both Sony and Panasonic when available.

 

We?ll have more on this technology as it comes, but what do you think so far?

 

Via Videogamer.

 

http://www.vg247.com/2014/03/10/sony-unveils-next-generation-of-archival-300gb-1tb-blu-ray-discs/

http://www.videogamer.com/news/next-gen_blu-ray_revealed_sony_announces_1tb_archival_disc.html

[trooper11]

Well I think the long term future of disc based media is in fact as archival storage, so its not shocking to me to see Sony and others push out the next evolution in disc based storage as an archival medium, not as say the next format for video usage.

[neoadorable]

What do they mean by archival in this sense? And i don't understand why PS4/X1 don't support BDXL, this needs to be added via firmware.

[trooper11]

What do they mean by archival in this sense? And i don't understand why PS4/X1 don't support BDXL, this needs to be added via firmware.

Usually that means the discs are made in a way that will allow them to last longer while in storage. It could also mean that they are made in a way that is worried more about data reliability then things like quick access to the media on the disc.

As far as the BDXL thing, I'm pretty sure that requires new hardware, not just a firmware upgrade.

[Luc2k]

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[neoadorable]

Usually that means the discs are made in a way that will allow them to last longer while in storage. It could also mean that they are made in a way that is worried more about data reliability then things like quick access to the media on the disc.

As far as the BDXL thing, I'm pretty sure that requires new hardware, not just a firmware upgrade.

 

Hmmm i thought it was the same mechanism, as in wavelength, lens, etc? No engineer so no idea. And suspected archival is borrowed from the storage industry, where it's like NL-SAS drives...big, reliable, but slow so not really for high speed applications, which will be gaming in our case.

[DeltaXray]

Getting closer in terms of capacity but they still have light years to go before it is close to competing with traditional LTO tapes for archival.

[riahc3]

Hello,

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Yeah, it was posted in BPN, ripped from there and posted on the front page with no credit at all, then posted here again.

Also, has it been confirmed to be Blu-Ray and compatible with current Blu-Ray technology?