Sony Developing 300GB Blu-Ray Successor

[Demandred20]

While the tech-porn side of my brain gets all warm and fuzzy at this the logic sides questions this. Sony while having a mountain of financial problems flushes even more resources into a system of extremely questionable value. This isnt the 90ies anymore, with disks being the end-all of the market. While many lacks access to high speed digital the market is a lot more divided these days and trying to get back the DVD boom era isnt going to benefit Sony methinks. Besides what thing are going to use that much space besides maybe 4k vids? If you want to get back in the black Sony start working on a practical holodeck.

 

[Strazdas]

thats the thing. on paper SSDs are great.
In realiy, modern SSDs have a 2000-3000 writes burnout as opposed to the hailed 100.000. IF you didnt loose your SSD after 2 years, you either did not use it a whole lot or just got lucky. i got a HDD that spins for 10 years now, does not mean average HDD life isnt 3-5 years.

Ok, let me rephrase, I haven't heard about SSDs failing in the numbers you are describing and I read about 6 tech sites almost each day.
Also the 100k is for some of the early generation Single Level Cell NAND.
And as I said earlier those 1000-3000 writes for MLC is at a 3% failure rate, so at 2000-6000 writes the failure rate would be 1-(1-0.03)^2 ~ 6% failure rate.

There are no realiable failure rate statistics. as this fine article [http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/ssd-reliability-failure-rate,2923-2.html] will show you, no relaiable failure rates are known and studies are all over the place. However user reviews and datacenters replacing them much more often than HHDs speaks another story.
And 6% failure rate is massive for data storage.

 

[masticina]

As person who has photography as hobby and shoots raw, yes my files are just huge. Working with them in the best quality after light room 4.. it is all huge.

So a 300Gbyte storage format is good news. Not joking I already switched to blu-ray for backups of my images. maybe it will take another 6 years but 300Gbyte is good news to come. Also for those who make gameplay videos, lets plays reviews, do you know how big 1080p files are? Yeah they are HUGE!

 

[Crazie_Guy]

I wonder if there will be a day when there are movies and games so massive, you have to submit for written approval from your ISP to download them.