a 100 TB CD-ROM

[King_of_Crunk]

have you guys heard about this:HyperOM

 

[mkaibear]

From that article it's almost certainly a "scam idea" - like Cold Fusion, or the Phantom Games Console. Something designed to get people to invest money in.

Let's look at the pointers;

>over 40 scientific works published and presented at dedicates conferences. But what is again remarkable is the fact that Dr. Pavel has over 62 patents and patent applications.

That's over 40 works published in thirty years? That's pretty poor, actually. and 62 patents *and patent applications* - so how many patents does he actually have?

>The Hyper CD-ROM was showcased in Brussels EUREKA “48th World Exhibition of Innovation and New Technology”, November 1999, and received several prizes such as the “Prix International de l’Organisation Mondiale de la Presse Periodique”, the “Grand Prize of the “Kent Premium Lights Annual Awards for Innovation”, 2000, organized by the Romanian Design Foundation.


So, nothing's happened with this in 6 years, then? Not exactly a mature product...

It just reads like another scam to me...

 

[King_of_Crunk]

i see your point but you have to understand that he is from Romania,as am I,and that in this piece of sh** country things move pretty slow.For instance insuline was first discovere by a romanian but before he could do anything with it some other guy unvailed it at some convention.

 

[mkaibear]

>things move pretty slow

That's fine - but he claims he's got patents in the USA, etc - if this were a real product he'd have backers over there developing it.

>insulin

Er, what? If you are talking about the person who first isolated Insulin, that would be E.L. Scott at the University of Chicago - between 1911 and 1912. The experiments were repeated by Israel Kleiner at Rockefeller University in 1919 (but his work was disrupted by WWI, so he never got to patent it).

Nicolae Paulescu, who is the person you're speaking of, (of the Romanian School of Medicine), did work in France, published it there, (in 1921) and patented it in Romania, but unfortunately Frederick Banting, working with Eli Lilly, produced the first pure insulin for sale before he managed to (1922)

Claiming that Paulescu discovered insulin is a bit rich!

 

[crusher]

thanks for the history data.

 

[mkaibear]

Can't quite work out if you're being sarcastic. So I'll assume you're not.

>thanks for the history data

You're welcome! Any time!

 

[HoldenMcGroin]

Somebody needs a swift kick in the butt.

The Romanian if this is a scam. How dare he get my hopes up.
The Romanian if this is true. One can only store so much porn. We should not be encouraged.
King of Crunk for playing with our minds.

BTW, a patent alone does not signify something "works" only that something was applied for. I could be the first for a patent on a machine that can access the space-time continuum (sp?). The machine does not need to work, it only protects the technology that I wish to use.

 

[King_Ging]

Anyone notice that the average data transfer rate was a mere 3 Mb/s?

Essentially thats 0.375 MB/s .

If this disc can hold up to 100 TB of data, a TB being 1 000 000 MB, it would take 266 666 667 seconds to fill this disc.

That's 266 666 667 seconds / 86 400 seconds/day = 3086 days!

So this disk can backup your thousands of Gigs of porn and warez in a mere 8.5 years of STRAIGHT writing. I can see this being useful....

I think this also explains why nothing's happened in six years... hes been too busy waiting for his HYPEROM to finish writing..only 2.5 more years to go!

 

[HoldenMcGroin]

GJ with the scam-busting King Ging. Do you know your numbers are a little off? Isn't a TB=1,048,576MB? I think that will add a few more months to your calculation.

With further research, don't you think he could get the speed up a bit? But how would this guy know how much his optical storage could hold if he is still filling the damn thing up to prove it?

For fear of hijacking this thread, I won't give you other scams to bust.

 

[raytracer06]

seems like bs to me... we may soon read this in the INQ...

the support for storage (i.e. fluorescent photosensitive glass) is a very stable in time medium

their hyper CD is supposed to be 10mm high... it would make a pretty heavy thing... the drive's motor must be strong...

they also claim a 3MB/s transfer rate... you start burning your 100TB CD and you come back 1 year later ?

Finally, i've found the "project" home page :

http://www.dntb.ro/users/frdbuc/hyper-cdrom/hyper.htm

this is very "Atomchip-like"... no comments

Edit : oops... I didn't read well... it was not 3 Mbytes/s but 3Mbits/s... it's even funnier !

 

[heartview]

Here is another write-up that quotes 176 Mbits/s transfer rate:

Link

 

[HoldenMcGroin]

LOL. The link doesn't work! Here's one that quotes 1 Gbit/s transfer rate:

Link

 

[heartview]

LOL. The link doesn't work! Here's one that quotes 1 Gbit/s transfer rate:

Link

Works perfectly fine for me.