Note: Unfortunately the research paper linked in the article is a dead/broken/wrong link. Perhaps the author will update it later.
From the limited coverage, it doesn’t sound like there’s an actual optical drive that utilizes this yet and that it’s just theoretical based on the properties of the material the researchers developed.
I’m not holding my breath, but I would absolutely love to be able to back up my storage system to a single optical disc (even if tens of TBs go unused).
If they could make a R/W version of that, holy crap.
I never claimed disks should be measured in bytes… And still with this per second thing which has no bearing on this. How data is stored is irrelevant to how it’s measured in transit. That’s kind of like saying kilometers are measured in kilometers per hour, but a drag strip is a quarter mile. So you’ve lost me on whatever point you’re trying to make there.