So this researcher, Dr Zongsong Gan, in an Aussie working at Swinburne Uni in Melbourne (which is also in Australia). They've been able to fit 1,000 TB onto a DVD.
In 2013 Dr Gan, in collaboration with Dr Yaoyu Cao and Professor Min Gu from Swinburne and Professor Richard A. Evans from the CSIRO, demonstrated breaking the physical barrier known as the diffraction limit of light and realising optical super-resolution fabrication with a feature size down to 9 nm (nano metres). This ground- breaking work has the potential to revolutionise information industries and provide a new technology platform for big data centres.
The first article I read on this was very poorly written. It would be an offense to share it here. So I found some better sources, including the media release.
http://www.swinburne...researcher.html
http://www.lifehacke...bytes-on-a-dvd/
Storing that much data on such a small disc, or even handheld device, would be epic.
Not really that the average person needs that much storage, but the ability to shrink data storage sizes while keeping capacity would definitely be good news.
