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Seen the FMD drives?
Discuss Seen the FMD drives?
Posted by: killians45
Heard about this a few years ago, but so far very little has been revealed. These drives will be amazing. Give you an idea and then a link. Plastic disks that use a fluorocarbon/fluorescent material layered at 10+ thick. The laser will differentiate between incoherent and coherent light. Upto 140GB and estimated (since it can read 10 layers in one pass) 1GB/sec transfer. ****. Anyhow, most everything I've read is from awhile ago, so what ever happened!
[url]http://www.design-ireland.net/index.php?http%3A//www.design-ireland.net/fmd/fmd4.php[/url]
I'd love to see this stuff ready for consumer use! 'Course, maybe a bottleneck problem...
There's alot of other info out there. Anyone ever heard of it? What ever happened to them, it's like it just vanished except for hyper cdrom but the access times and price isn't as good. Maybe there just being quite or did they go bust??? Anyone know?! Anyone?
Posted by: littlethug_69
haha lmao if those ever come out they will be so **** expensive
Posted by: Qiranworms
[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by littlethug_69 [/i]
[B]haha lmao if those ever come out they will be so **** expensive [/B][/QUOTE]
Fifty years ago people might have said that if they knew about the computers we have today...
"A machine that does ALL of that for $500? You've got to be kidding me!"
(realize that owning a color TV at that time was quite a cool thing to have...)
Posted by: killians45
actually, the original was supposed to be VERY cheap. materials were nothing but plastic with fluorescent inside... dunno, maybe they ran into a problem. ..
Posted by: ekĘsine
yeah they did......it called REALITY. c'mon who were they trying to fool....themselves? some people have too much ambition for their own good.
Posted by: killians45
yeah, but would of been soooo nice. I wasn't really thinking about the cdrom drive so much as what they could of done with memory and HDD. Memory writen and read at multiple levels at the same time. Man, that would of been nice. like 10 Gig mem chips at HUGE transfer rates... WITH cheap media. Who knows, maybe one day. In the mean time, it's time for a game of PainKiller! ;) Finally got the SOB working after all these virtual drive errors. In case anyone has it and has this WIDELY known problem, I fixed it with just using the no cd patch. That **** safe cd copy protection. I mean, c'mon. I can see wanting to make a profit by copy protecting, but when you have a legitimit copy of the game and it doesn't work because of cloneing software??! They'll wind up losing more sales do to frustration and word of mouth keeping anyone from buying it than piracy.
Posted by: Chris9900
Just to let you all know that the company that made the FMD drives went broke! So there is no chance of seeing a FMD drive anymore! The company was called Constellation 3D and you can find there shares on the pinksheets market if your intrested! Don't know why you would be seeing they are worthless and bankrupt! Still it did work and they claimed they could of got 1 terra byte if they used the Blue laser! Shame really!!:(
Posted by: killians45
Well, maybe someone will buy up the rights to it and continue the R&D
Posted by: Lrr
in the neer future ther is bound to be another breakthrough in storage technology becuse demand is so great. there are many new tecnologies on the not so distant horizon that are promising to have a great potental. the fmd would have been nice but i am not supprised rily the compant whent out of buesness. somthing like that requires massive amounts of funding to develop not onaly the disk but also to deverlope the player/laser this is why large companies like sony uasualy have big breakthroughs because they have the funding.
ps. What ever happend to the minidisk?