Storage capacities have been increasing on all fronts lately. Flash media has seen the evolution of a previoulsy unheard of 8 gigabyte Compact Flash card (courtesy of Sandisk), and hard drives are now able to store data in increments of 500 gigabytes (that’s half a Terabyte for you geek-types!), surely even the storage hungry uber-shooters would be satisfied right? Wrong!
The portable media that had been largely ignored for offline storage (CD’s and DVD’s) due to limitations has seen recent gains. Dual layer DVD’s have allowed us to store up to 8 gigabytes on one disc. Then blu-ray technology showed how we could store up to 12 gigabytes on one disc. As if that’s not enough, Verbatim has taken the blu-ray technology one step further by implementing dual layer capabilities for the media. That’s right, you can now store 25 gigabytes on one dual layer blu-ray DVD. Granted, you need a drive that can read blu-ray, of which there are select few, but with this announcement, the ability to save and backup data to for offline storage has just seen another exponential step forward.
Yet, I am sure, someone out there somewhere, will no doubt lose some data because they didn’t want to spend the $25 on a blu-ray disc to save the contents of their hard drive. 
Harvey | 18-Aug-06 at 4:07 pm | Permalink
Ouch!! Close to One Grand for Blu-Ray Writer. Think I’ll wait a bit and keep piling up DVD dual layer disks.
jason | 18-Aug-06 at 4:24 pm | Permalink
Yeah…the discs come out to a buck a piece, but when you factor in the high cost of blu-ray writers, that makes it an option that most won’t even consider. I would imagine as technologies advance though, this will drop in price in response to either lack of consumer demand for it, or other advancing technologies… Only time will tell there though…
Harvey | 18-Aug-06 at 5:03 pm | Permalink
I think the first DVD burners were up there too, now they are around for
Harvey | 18-Aug-06 at 5:03 pm | Permalink
less than $50