Using this with archival grade DVD-Rs would make big science much cheaper, accessible, and reproducible. Imagine the LHC fitting all their data into a briefcase, and just sending it to whoever asked for it. Of course, the real problem would be writing bandwidth.
Using archival grade media and write redundancy + ECC, you could decrease the size of what you put on a disk to just 10TB and probably hit a sweet spot between massive amounts of storage, exceptional reliability, and increased bandwidth.
Using archival grade media and write redundancy + ECC, you could decrease the size of what you put on a disk to just 10TB and probably hit a sweet spot between massive amounts of storage, exceptional reliability, and increased bandwidth.