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DVD-like optical disc could store 1.6 petabits (or 200 terabytes) on 100 layers(www.techspot.com)

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MisterD@lemmy.ca
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It’s the number of times faster it can read or burn compared to the original speed of reading and burning

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cholesterol@lemmy.world
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Does the ‘original speed’ mean what the natural playback would have been? So 60 minutes of audio burned by a x60 drive would take one minute?

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MNByChoice@midwest.social
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Yes, but I think there was some overhead in the process that was slower.

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unphazed@lemmy.world
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Memory limitations. Back then RAM was like 512 max

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