Talk:5D optical data storage

Microsoft & Hitachi are not the prime researchers & developers in this context

The article notes Microsoft and Hitachi researched and developed the technology. Wrong as is said earlier in this article: the entire research & development was performed at a number oft universities. Companies came in later, took up that technology in order to make a profit out of it - that's about it. And that's what usually happens. Moreover, the Verge article cited for the Hitachi claim does not contain any references, therefore it is no reliable information at all and hence should simply be deleted. Microsoft properly states in the reference cited that their work is based on the aforementioned university research & develoment. Michael H.W. Weber (talk) 13:22, 24 November 2020 (UTC)

I agree. I see no reason for the article to promote Microsoft and Hitachi in that way given that all they did was commercialize the technology. Dstar3k (talk) 15:21, 24 July 2021 (UTC)

5D?

A whole article about a technology claiming 5D and not even a hint as to a justification of where the naming came from? One assumes the D here doesn't mean dimension and they've just picked it because it sounds better than multi-property storage?

I guess the same thing could be said for 3D optical data storage. -- GreenC 15:32, 6 August 2019 (UTC)

Merger

Disagree with merger, this is a very different type of technology and with the SpaceX launch and Archive company commercializing it, it will continue to expand. -- GreenC 14:09, 13 February 2018 (UTC)

This is fascinating, a storage device capable of storing many hundreds of terabyte (and no doubt more than that in the near future) for a timespan longer than the age of the current universe! Wow! :)) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.121.232.253 (talk) 12:53, 15 June 2018 (UTC)

Disc size

The currently-cited article just says "coin-sized." I'm not sure where people are getting 25mm or 1-euro or anything like that. Snowman304|talk 16:07, 21 September 2024 (UTC)

I originally said euro sized, based on the photograph in the picture, but changed it to coin sized, to give the reader some sense of scale, it's supportable by the photo in the source. I also replaced the Popular Science article with the article from U of Southampton which appears to be more accurate, such as about the "homage" to the Pioneer probes vs. the Voyager Golden Disc. -- GreenC 00:58, 22 September 2024 (UTC)