14 DAY TRIAL // A not so well known name in the computer industry is Israel-based Mempile company; they have proven that up to 250 hours of HD programming or one terabyte of information can be stored on a sigle, DVD-sized optical disk.
This has been achieved through their TeraDisk technology, which allowed them to record 500GB of data on a simple plastic transparent disk. Eat your heart out Blu-ray and HD-DVD, there's a new sheriff in town. The amount of information recorded on a single disk exceeds by more than 300GB the previously announced sizes that blue laser technologies should have been able to produce by 2010.
Mr. Avi Huppert, the CEO of Mempile stated that: "From iPODs to Tivo, the amount of digital content that consumers are recording and storing in their homes is increasing like never before. The resulting problem is that the information is stored as "islands" on various devices as well as on home PCs, which often function as a central repository by backing up the content of the devices, with the inherent risk of the hard disk drive crashing. Mempile's TeraDisc technology will, for the first time, enable consumers to permanently store one TeraByte of data on a single, removable DVD-size disc at a fraction of the price of alternative solutions on the market."
The optical storage media being used nowadays is recorded onto with the use of "light-reflective semi-transparent technologies." The usage on blue laser technology has only added to the size that can be recorded on a disk through the reduction on the wavelength size, allowing it to burn smaller layers of information on the disk. Nevertheless, the technology is limited by the number of layers that can be burned onto a disk, this is when Mempile steps in with their patented "non-linear two-photon technology" which allows for "3D recording of transparent virtual layers on the entire volume of the disc."
In a demonstration of the technology, they were able to write 100 layers on a 0.6mm active material, which is half the size of a normal DVD. When they will increase the size of the material to 1.2mm, recording will be possible in 200 layers containing up to 5GB of data per layer. The technology itself is said to be "easily integrated into existing hardware manufacturing and software design processes", while their biggest challenge yet is to come out with a cost effective solution that could compete with current solutions available on the market.