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Hitachi Maxell has created new DVD technology, just by shrinking the current. The new discs have the same diameter and shape, but are just 0.092 mm thick, only 1/13th the current dvd thickness. The new technology still has the same storage capacity as a typical DVD - 4.7GB. So whats the big deal?
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Well the current DVDs can be Double layer making them 8,4GB but the new discs can be stacked up into the "Stacked Volumetric Optical Disc", or SVOD, wich consist of a 100 of the new thin discs in a single cartridge which is a total of 6.5cm thick. Each of the 100 discs is actually allready uses dual layer technology, giving each disc a capacity of 9.4GB. That means that the whole SVOD cartridge has a capacity of 940GB, which can be used both for random access memory and for long-term storage, Maybe eaven, in some next generation, replace the magnetic HDDs.

Maxwell says that next generation DVD technology could bring the total capacity for a SVOD up to 5 terabytes.
A stack of the current discs will cost $325 wich is not all that much considering the 940GB capacity.