Why Blu-Ray NEEDS 25 GB of storage per layer.

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The third layer uses TLC memory for capacity storage at a much lower price per bit.

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The one that actually builds silicon layer infrastructure, new chips, networking, storage.

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World's first triple-layer Blu-ray Disc media featuring large 100GB recording storage capacity.

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Each node has 2-8 Xeon 5650 processors providing 6-48 coes and up to 768 GB of RAM, 1.3 TB of Fusion-io ioDrive PCIe flash cards and a mid-layer of up to 1.2 TB of Intel SSD storage.

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Zech (The ADVENT Group of Colorado Springs, CO) noted optical storage technology expert, a new commercial optical storage technology using UV light would probably have to be in the 200 nm range and would provide storage capacities of over 100 GB in a single layer.

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This design doubles the recording storage capacity (to 100GB) compared to existing dual-layer discs (50GB).

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Without the old layer of short-distance cables, this new Ethernet system will connect servers and storage drives directly to long-distance networks, making them accessible to each other from hundreds or thousands of miles away.

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Its storage potential is enormous: Dr Sheats says that initially, a single layer of memory the size of a sheet of writing paper will be able to store one billion bytes (a gigabyte) of data.

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The middle layer consists of two STEC ZeusRAM drives and two STEC MLC drives and is used for metadata and intermediate data storage.

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