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Matsushita Electric Industrial Co, parent company of Panasonic, has developed a Blu-ray disc that is able to store 100GB of data on a single peice of plastic. The new discs are the first of their kind and allow for four layers to be on a disc, each storing 25GB worth of data. One of the most surprising bits of information to come out of all of this is that they believe the discs will last 100 years. The durability levels of a disc of this kind if unbelievable and go far above and beyond the abilities of even traditional hard drives in size and life expectancy. Panasonic hasn’t yet announced when they will be able to mass produce these new discs or even when they expect to start selling them on any level.

This amazing announcement comes at a time when storage limits are being broken constantly and everyone is searching for the new standard in media storage devices. These new CDs actually look like they have a real ground for competition depending on their read/write speeds. I’m still confident that NAND flash memory will probably come out the victor after all is said and done, but making a hard statement like that is difficult when technology advances as fast and radically as it does.

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