Nanotech to increase DVD capacity to 850 GByte

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12:58 PM - May 24, 2005 by Wolfgang Gruener

San Diego (CA) - Iomega believes DVD media to remain competitive with upcoming optical storage technologies such as Blu-ray and HD-DVD: Nanotechnology could multiply the current maximum capacity to 8.5 GByte 40 to 100 times, the company said.

The DVD appears to be far from its end of life according to Iomega's discovery. The firm was granted two patents that cover a specific use of nanotechnology in combination with optical data storage as well as a "method and apparatus for optical data storage." In the

Source : Tom's Hardware US

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