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31 May 2005 Iomega says it can take DVDs to 100 times today’s storage By Peter White Storage innovator, Iomega has just received a patent which threatens to change the face of digital media storage. Iomega will talk about its new patents at the Information Storage Industry Consortium symposium in California next month. What it seems to have done is worked out how dots of light change their appearance when tiny nano structures are raised on the surface of a disk making it possible to store more than one bit of data for each nano change to the disk. It was issued US patent number 6,879,556 entitled Method and Apparatus for Optical Data Storage which it says means optical disks will be able to store between 40 to 100 times more information than today’s DVDs, with data transfer rates 5 to 30 times faster. It doesn’t say how long it will take for this idea to reach the market, but calls this technology Articulated Optical DVD and points it firmly at the storage of High Definition programming. Iomega says that it is trying to work out how best to exploit the technology commercially and is looking for Consumer Electronics partners that might help. One possibility that Iomega is investigating is the use of a Nano-Grating which will use different ways of storing data such as reflectivity, polarization, phase, and reflective orientation all multiplexed together. ‘Subwavelength optical data storage can provide an array of mechanisms by which the state of a focused spot of light upon reflection can be precisely changed,’ explained Fred Thomas, the Chief Technologist at Iomega. Source: 9-27-2022 https://rethinkresearch.biz/articles/iomega-says-it-can-take-dvds-to-100-times-todays-storage/