Η Pioneer announced that it has started developing a new one Blu-Ray disk with 256GB capacity, which is four times from a disc Blu-Ray XL, which offers the largest capacity so far.
This new optical disc has 8 layers of total capacity 256GB without being formatted, with Pioneer to declare that in the future it is possible to achieve a capacity that reaches them 512GB.
After the announcement magnetic medium with 185 TB capacity from Sony, Pioneer wanted to develop Blu-Ray, offering a new solution to backup large files to visual media.
In addition to Pioneer, the Sony and Panasonic announced the project Archival Disc, to create an optical disk with capacity 300GB, but with the disadvantage that it is not in any known standard (DVD, Blu-Ray), as a result not yet have devices for reproduction or enrollment data.
Therefore, its solution Pioneer shows that it's the best one right now, because Blu-Ray has matured with a lot of suggestions on the market and eventually the optical media and drives will be less expensive compared to Sony's proposal - Panasonic.
Source: e-pcmag.gr
