Gizmodo: 100gb

Sharp Develops Laser Capable of Reading and Burning 100GB Blu-Ray Discs

Rosa Golijan — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 19:05:58 EDT

Sharp has announced that they've been working on a laser which would "allow a drive to read twice as deep as current dual-layer Blu-ray drives" and "let it write at 8X speed on all four layers." Wowza. What this means is that we might be seeing triple-layer and quad-layer Blu-ray discs with capacities of up to 100GB in the future.

Just how long will we have to wait? There's no information on that, but we do know that Sharp is going through some testing of the devices:

Sharp has already verified the reliability of the new blue-violet semiconductor laser. It confirmed that the laser operated for more than 1,000 hours under the temperature of 80°C with a pulse width of 30ns and an output of 500mW.

Sounds safe enough to me, but sadly that stage is nowhere near actual products shipping. Let's hope they hurry up, especially since we've had the discs collecting dust for a year. [TechOn via electronista]

Pretec's Stumps Up 64GB Compact Flash Card, and 100GB: World's Largest

Kit Eaton — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 03:58:00 EDT

100GB CF cards.... holy moly that's huge. Pretec's saying it's the world's largest capacity CF, and I'm not going to argue. It's a 233x speed card, capable of access rates at 35MB/s and it, along with its smaller 64GB sibling, is being shown at Photokina this week. Not satisfied with that though, Pretec's also extending its range of ultra-fast cards (apparently the world's fastest) with 333x speed and 50MB/s data rates in 32GB and 50GB capacities. The 333x 32GB and 233x 64GB are due to ship now, for $630 and $400, and the 233x 100GB and 333x 50GB by the end of the year. But Pretec's being shy about pricing those, or indeed even showing a product pic, but it notes the metal housings make these cards rugged. Press release below.

COLOGNE, Germany & TAIPEI, Taiwan —(Business Wire)— Sep 22, 2008 Pretec, creator of the highest capacity and fastest CompactFlash card in the world, will demonstrate even higher capacities including a 64GB CF card, in the Leaf booth (West Hall 4.2, B009) and CFA (Hall 5.1, G-019) at Photokina 2008.

Pretec today releases 64GB and 100GB, 233X CF cards with access speed of up to 35MB/s, overtaking the Pretec 48GB CF card, the previous world's record holder; and super high speed 333X 32GB and 50GB CF cards capable of running up to 50 MB per second of Read/Write speed, the highest speed CF card in the world.

Pretec CF 233X and 333X CF cards use metal housing and ruggedized construction to provide extensive ruggedness. Pretec 64GB CF cards can be configured or reused to make a 256GB SATA, the highest capacity 2.5" SSD, by using Pretec Q-SATA, a patent-pending technology of flexible, scalable and modular SATA/PATA design based on up to 4 CF cards.

Pretec CF cards will be demonstrated together with high performance digital cameras from Leaf, a business unit of Eastman Kodak. Their new Leaf AFi-II system delivers the fastest shooting speeds of any camera in its class. These speeds are enabled by advanced communication and CF technologies and Leaf Capture software. "We are pleased to have chosen Pretec as our exclusive storage partner at Photokina 2008 and to witness the excitement as Pretec breaks the CF card speed and capacity world records," said Seth Greenberg, Leaf Marketing Director.

Pretec 233X 64GB and 333X 32GB CF cards with suggested retail price of $399 and $630 are slated to start delivery by Photokina 2008.

[Pretec]

Buffalo has just announced that it is releasing...

AddyDugdale — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 10:03:55 EST

Buffalo has just announced that it is releasing a 100GB version of their credit card-sized USB2 solid state portable drive. Cost is 107,000 in Japan ($950.) – Kit Eaton.

Hitachi Doubles Blu-ray Storage to 100GB

Jason Chen — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 10:17:28 EDT

Although 200GB storage discs for Blu-ray have been out and about for a while, no player can actually read them. However, Hitachi's just raised the bar of practicality (as opposed to the bar of numbers on a spec sheet) to 100GB. These discs will work in existing players without the need to update your firmware. Good news for storage heads, but for most people it just means Blu-ray movies will have 70GB of empty space on them instead of 20GB (most movies don't need 50GB even with extras). [idm.net.au]

How to Upgrade Your Creative Zen Vision W Hard Drive to 100GB

Jason Chen — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 14:00:16 EDT

People have made the case for choosing a Creative Zen W over both the iPod or the Zune (16:9 display, DivX support, 4.3-inch screen), but the storage size has always been a little lacking, even in the 60GB model. By upgrading the drive to 100GB, you're one-upping the iPod in both space and screen size. The process looks fairly straightforward, and as long as you follow each step to the letter, you shouldn't have to worry about bricking your player. [OneMansBlog via MAKE]

Toshiba Announces 100GB 1.8-inch Drive; 100GB iPod on the Way?

Charlie White — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 07:57:40 EST

Toshiba announced it will ship a 100GB 1.8-inch hard disk next month, the largest yet of this size. The little drive spins at 4200rpm and happens to be exactly the right size to fit into an Apple iPod.

Although Toshiba was careful not to mention anything about its relationship with Apple and how its 1.8-inch disks occupy the interiors of Apple's 80GB iPods, this is some pretty solid evidence that we'll be seeing a 100GB iPod soon, perhaps around the same time we see the new iPhone. – Charlie White

A new 100GB 1.8" hard disk [Akhihabara News]

Axes VP8360 100GB PMP

Travis Hudson — Wed, 05 Jul 2006 14:28:34 EDT

So, does size really matter? No, according to all of my ex-girlfriends, but they were probably just being nice. I'm going to also vote no to this portable media player from Axes. It has a blisteringly large 100GB internal hard drive in addition to expansion for Compact Flash, SD, MMC, Micro and all of the Sony memory sticks.

While the large hard drive is nice and all, this PMP is still killed by the lack of wide support for video playback and somewhat mediocre screen specs. For video it only supports AVI, MOV, MPEG-1 and 4. What, no DivX, Xvid or WMV? It has a 3.5-inch TFT LCD screen that supports a 320 x 240 resolution. It does include an FM tuner, line-in, microphone-in and TV-out, which is pretty nice. Should be available next week in Japan for $610. – Travis Hudson

Axes VP8360/100 PMP with 100GB hard drive [Newlaunches]