Sony have just designed and produced a CD that is over 50% Paper!

and will store more data than current CD plastic technology

 

http://www.sony.net/SonyInfo/News/Press/200404/04-0415E/

 

it would seem that after centuries of different storage media methods, from paper, mag tape, vinyl, optical, microchips etc... that we end up back to Paper again )

I wonder how praticle they are......they seem like a marvelous idea but will they be durable enough. 25GB ain't bad!

Any idea how recyclable they are compared to standard discs?

But why would they want to make them out of paper? Is it the paper the reason it can hold so much data?

Well paper is pretty cheap, although iu dont know how cheap it is compared to plastic.....

Why use oil to make plastic when you can recycle paper into a cd, I guess.

Apparently it's a lot cheaper than the plastic alternative.

But why would they want to make them out of paper? Is it the paper the reason it can hold so much data?

 

 

Their paper disk usesw less overall material and is therefore more economically and enviromentally practical. Basicaly it takes less paper to make a CD than it does plastic.

Is it mixed into the overall CD? or does it have a paper back or filler layer?

I would guess that it is just paper with a thin film of plastic to keep it from bending and allow it to spin properly.

Bear in mind that it's only 50% paper, the rest of it is the normal cd materials (for things like protective layer, etc).

I think this is one technology I'll wait a while to try. Let someone else put their data at risk first.

Yeah, I'm not entirely sure I want to backup all my stuff (and I get through a lot of DVDs) onto something that's basically paper

And that someone could take and chop up with scissors.

 

"Will you stop playing that game and come to dinner, Robby?!! Or I'll come over there and cut it in half!!!"

"No, Mom, no! Please! Pleeeeeaasse?! Five more minutes!!"

lol

 

Although there is the advantage that because it can quite easily be cut in half, it's good to ensure that if you want to securely destroy the data, you can.

 

Reckon you can burn them?

Dunno, they're only 51% paper.

but I dont like to use CDs....

 

because you have to burn it, and if it fails, you either rewrite it or throw it in the bin....

 

 

I hope the scientist can make external harddrive or flash memory out of paper, which will be a great fortune..!!

 

Albert

I have never had a failed CD. Ever.

BUT STILL, YOU CANNOT DELETE THE FILE, ONCE IS BURNED, IT IS OVER......

 

but cd is used for selling software, so we cannot live without it.....

 

albert

You COULD try using rewritable CDs.

CDs are only likely to fail if you get some cheap and nasty ones anyway.

To Sayonara, rewritables will recover the files when you burn it..........

any way, CDs are not sufficient for storing data, because they are read only.....

 

Again, CDs are most useful for Movies and softwares that sold in the market....

 

Albert

I would personally say they're pretty useful for carrying files around, since more or less everyone has a cd writer. Good for backups too.

to me, I rather have an external drive, or USB/firewire Flash memory stick.....

 

Albert

Most people archive files that won't change to CD - they don't use them as temporary storage. That's what rewritables, Hard drives and ZIP are for.