Chinese researchers achieve breakthrough in petabit-level optical data storage

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Chinese researchers have achieved a groundbreaking milestone in optical data storage (ODS), reaching a storage capacity of 1.6 petabits on a DVD-sized disk. In data storage units, 1,024 gigabytes equal 1 terabyte, and 1,024 terabytes form 1 petabit.

[catonpillow]

Some of the trolls here would try to convince you Сhinese can't innovate. Just send them this video and watch them melt.

[namelesswarrior]

hurts my head just pretending to be thinking about it. 😁😁
Unstoppable China

[jsch]

Never look back China. Continue moving forward.

[parttimethinker]

Wow, 1.6 million gigabytes or 1600 terabytes on a dvd. Used to be just 500 megabytes per disc. Then it went to few gigabytes. Wonder will new movies be much longer now that memories are plenty ? Wonder do they come in packages of 100?

[davidcadman]

I remember the 80's and the REAL floppy disks, playing with B/W line drawing images... This is scary :) in a good way. I just bought a 4 terabyte hard drive, and thought that was enough... What the H. will I put on a 1.6 Petabyte disk... Will it transition to SSD drives next for Quantum Computers...

[kiyotaka]

Amazing guys kudos to the scientists thinking about such technology is amazing, hope to see more inventions and discoveries further

[timothywcrane]

I want some. I want installable data centers on a local disk array.

[komododragon]

So in summary we can have DVD with peta byte storage👁️👄👁️?

[Tacoma-W]

Nah. Too many scratches. Or i should say 'issues'

[urimtefiki]

The thief is telling about achievements.

[cnk]

Imagina a single cd rotating in a cd player and 'serving' whole world in place of Google data centre😂