History (1996): 1TB on Single Optical Disk Platter Previews Eastman Kodak

Eastman Kodak (Rochester, NY) has received a 4-year, $6.3 million grant from the US Commerce Department to develop an optical disk system with 1TB of storage per platter.

Kodak’s current 14-inch WORM stores 14.8GB, while the highest capacity on record for a single platter is 16GB on 12-inch diameter media by ATG Gigadisc.

Kodak’s proposal was part of a collaboration with 3 other partners: the National Storage Industry Consortium (San Diego, CA), SDL (San Jose, CA) and Carnegie Mellon University (Pittburgh, PA).

The team was collectively awarded $10 million and will invest $11 million of their own funds in the project.

This article is an abstract of news published on the former paper version of Computer Data Storage Newsletter on issue 96, published on January 1996.