"Plasmon has developed a new optical disc for compliance-based systems that allows selected data to be physically destroyed on the disc while leaving other data intact, the company said Monday.
The disc is based on Plasmon's UDO (Ultra Density Optical) optical media format and will be offered as a third media choice from Monday, the company said. The compliant write-once media will have a capacity of 30G bytes, the same as the write-once and rewritable versions of UDO, and will cost US$65 per disc.
That's halfway between the $60 and $70 the company charges for write-once and rewritable media respectively.
UDO is a phase-change optical storage system. In such systems, data is stored by changing the state of the disc's recording layer between amorphous and crystalline. Such changes affect the disc's reflectivity and it's this change that is detected when data needs to be read off the disc."
It seems a good price and the idea of selective destruction is something that will appeal to people who seek out the safe ways of deleting no longer needed, yet valuable files that you wouldn't want other peple to see. Will it take off in a big way? - time will tell as always and we will keep you posted on its development.
Monday 29th at 12:39 
Monday 29th at 12:39 
