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Revolutionary 10 TB Hyper CD-ROM

Posted by EU Times on Sep 9th, 2007 // No Comment

Dr. Eugen Pavel is a Romanian scientist and the inventor of the Hyper CD-ROM, a 3D optical data storage medium with a claimed initial capacity of 10 TB (TeraBytes) and with a theoretical capacity of 1 PB (PetaByte) on a single disc. It is considered by some to be the next revolution in computer storage. Dr. Pavel graduated with a physics degree from the University of Bucharest in 1976. He was awarded the Romanian Academy Prize in 1991 and obtained his doctorate in Physics from the Romanian Institute of Atomic Physics in 1992.

He won the “Prix International de l’Organisation Mondiale de la Presse Periodique” and a gold medal at the November 1999 EUREKA Contest in Brussels (Bruxelles) for inventions that lead to the creation of the Hyper CD-ROM. Dr. Pavel has published more than 40 books and articles, and he is the holder of 62 patents and patent applications.

In an interview about his work on the Hyper CD-ROM, Dr. Pavel stated that “the research for this project is 100% personal, (and) so is the support for experiments.”
So far, this technology has been brevetted in 21 countries (and counting), and the project is approaching its release. The only thing needed now is a serious investor. He estimates that, at first, the CD will cost between $100 and $200, but when it will become available in large scales, the cost will probably drop to about $30 per CD. Its price is not high, considering the CDs and DVDs which exist today, and their prices.

US company Constellation 3D announced on June 7, 2000 a similar optical storage media under the name Fluorescent Multilayer Disc Recently Hyper CD-ROM was reported again but it is not clear what progress has been made since first announcement in 2000.

1 PB = 1000 TB
1 TB = 1000 GB
1 GB = 1000 MB
1 MB = 1000 KB
1 KB = 1000 Bytes

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