Information Madness

Storing your personal and favorite data is quite a common way to preserve your memories. Poeple now a days store their data on DVDs and Portable Hard drives. But storing the data on DVDs can be risky when there is a fire of flood. That's going to change now. There is a new kind of DVDs called "M-Disc" that can actually survive fire and flood both.

Millenniata, a new optical disc company, has designed an optical disc that will last virtually forever. The M-Disc, a disc that uses a rock-like layer of material to write and read data from, rather than the ink dies that a conventional optical disc uses.

Instead of using an optical dye, the Millenniata M-Disc literally etches data in stone, or at least a rock-like material.. It's also stable to 500 degrees Centigrade, Millenniata said, and is also stable in the presence of oxygen, nitrogen, and water - important for surviving both fire, and floods.

When an M-Disc is "burned," the rock-like material literally melts away, exposing a pit or a hole that can be read as a data bit. The technology doesn't require a special laser, but it does require a bit more power, plus some tuning in the firmware, said Ted Ha, the team leader of H-L's overseas sales and marketing division.

Currently, these discs are available in only DVD format but the Blueray format is coming soon. Check out this video below