New storage devices

[AdmiralAK]

OK, zip disks and CD-RWs & DVDs do it for me. ( I also acknowledge that some are using optical disks, some super floppies, DVD-R/DVD-RW, tape, Jazz and Orb disks...as for floppies (both 3.5 & 5.25) I hvaent used one in 4 years ).

Small question though. How come the potential of mini discs has not been taken advantage of? I mean you can get up to 90 minutes of audio, and thus I assume up to 800Mb of data on them. They are re-writeable and fast at doing so (I dont think that people would spend the $$$ to get a portable MD player if it took em forever to get their music on)

IN markets like japan the audio tape is no more, it has gone the way of the 8 track (I wish I could find an 8 track tape for my collection though :-p) and I for one, as a music-phile and hobbyist DJ, would welcome the demise of the audio tape. But besides that point, MDs are becoming more popular these days, with the ability to hook em up to a USB port and put your MP3s on. Why not use them to store data as well ???

They seem to be fast drives, with great capacity, re-writeability, and most important of all, they dont take up a lot of space....

so.... why not have an MD data drive ??? (or portable player/recorder that does music and data?)

Can anyone explain this to me ??
What is your opinion ?

Admiral
PS: as a side not I have used CDR/CDRW/mini CDR, zip, jazz, tape, DVD and optical drives...so I am not that biased lol ... except when it comes to size mini CDs are nice but only provice 185Mb of space... bummer!

[VGZ]

Personally, I'm looking forward to Dataplay disks. 500MB in a disk the size of a quarter.

[AdmiralAK]

What ???/
Where is the info for these ???
(are you pulling my leg ?! )


Admiral

[fink8]

I'm looking forward to FMD-ROM's. 1 TB on a first Generation disc that is the size of a CD. Oh Yeah!!!

[VGZ]

Originally posted by AdmiralAK
What ???/
Where is the info for these ???
(are you pulling my leg ?! )


Admiral

Go to DataPlay.com for more info on DataPlay disks.

[fink8]

No joke. Its developed by a startup company called C3D. Check it out for yourself!!!! http://www.c-3d.net/

[AdmiralAK]

All this is making me start drool ......
I want these LOL :-p


(I wonder what I could do with a 1 TB disc .... its not like I have 1 TB of data ..... hmmmm trade lots and lots and lots of music videos & MP3 with friends :-p )



Admiral

[VGZ]

Originally posted by fink8
I'm looking forward to FMD-ROM's. 1 TB on a first Generation disc that is the size of a CD. Oh Yeah!!!

According to the site it will only be 25-140 GB on the first generation. The 140 would be good for backing up all my HDs . THis will be interesting to see. I just hope they make a Mac compatible product.