An Australian Researcher Worked Out How to Store 1000 Terabytes on a CD

Felicity Nelson
A significant breakthrough for data storage. Every day, humans are producing more data than ever before - around 90 percent of the world's data was generated in the past two years alone - and there will come a point when our data storage centres and the cloud can no longer keep up. But Dr Zongsong Gan, a researcher at Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia, has found a revolutionary way we can fit a whole lot more data onto traditional optical storage devices, such as CDs,...