If you thought that the standard DVD had a lot of storage capacity, you have not seen anything yet. Introducing the Multiplexed Optical Data Storage Disk. So just how much data does this actually hold? Heh, try 1 terabyte folks. Yup, you read that right. But while these experimental disks sound really cool, I am not really that sure I can think of a practical use for them off the top of my head.

BOFFINS AND boffinettes at Imperial College London are developing a new optical disk that can store a terabyte of data.

The Multiplexed Optical Data Storage (Mods)technology is expected to be released towards the end of 2010-155 for the home market, if the boffinettes and boffins can find backers.

The Imperial researchers estimate that MODS disks would cost the same to manufacture as an ordinary DVD and will be backwards compatible with existing optical formats.