Pioneer Laser Promises 500GB Discs

The inquirer is reporting that Pioneer has developed a technique which will allow optical drives to store 500GB of data.

“That’s according to the Nikkei Business Daily, which reported that the technique will use ultraviolet lasers, which emit shorter wavelength rays than blue lasers.

The paper reported that Pioneer uses the beam to write data holes in a master disk, each separated by 70 nanometres. “

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