The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 1 year agoResearchers have developed a Very Big Disc™ that can store up to 200 terabytes of data and may represent a return to optical media for long term storagewww.pcgamer.comexternal-linkmessage-square36fedilinkarrow-up1121arrow-down10
arrow-up1121arrow-down1external-linkResearchers have developed a Very Big Disc™ that can store up to 200 terabytes of data and may represent a return to optical media for long term storagewww.pcgamer.comThe Picard Maneuver@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 1 year agomessage-square36fedilink
minus-squareEch@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 year agoVBD sounds like some sort of advanced std.
minus-squareFandangalo@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·11 months agoThe expansion of that abbreviation feels like an idiocracy joke. “We store the computer data on VBDs.” “What is a VBD?” “Very large disc^tm. It’s pretty advanced.” And then they just bring out an insanely large disc.
minus-squarelingh0e@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoThey missed their chance at marketing a BFD… or even BBD (big byte disc).
VBD sounds like some sort of advanced std.
The expansion of that abbreviation feels like an idiocracy joke.
“We store the computer data on VBDs.” “What is a VBD?” “Very large disc^tm. It’s pretty advanced.” And then they just bring out an insanely large disc.
They missed their chance at marketing a BFD… or even BBD (big byte disc).
BBC big byte container