It's more massive than it actually looks. General Electric has come up with a monster 500GB capacity disc. This disc can hold 10 times the data of the current blue ray discs available in the market(100 times the size if the DVD's we use for backups) .
Technically, this is achieved using 3D optics, instead of the “2D” pit method of writing/reading data.
Since the size of the disc is the same as the optical discs we have these days, we can conclude that its not meant for the archive industries only. It is targeting the consumers as well who want to keep hi-def movies , pics and huge amount of digital data. No matter how big your hard drive is , it will only take a couple of these to take a backup.
It is also said that the format and the hardware is very similar to the current prevailing technologies. The only challenge lies in making a tangible hardware for this which i think will soon hit the market since half of the battle is already won.
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