Slappa 600 Black Wave HardBody CD Pro

Never underestimate the bandwidth of a monster CD wallet filled with experimental Blue-Ray discs in a 747.

Are there any CD-DJ’s in the house? Or anyone with a staggeringly large number of perfectly legal copies of 12cm optical discs? Then you may want to check this out.

This has to be one of the largest CD wallets the world has ever seen. It will hold 600 discs, has a telescopic handle and wheels. It’s made out of rubberised PVC and suede, and it feels solid enough to take quite a bit of punishment. All the joints, both inside and out, are sewn together. The only exceptions are the structural parts of the case, which are either screwed or riveted together.

The folder is divided into three sections of four sleeves per side, and one section of five to take the total number to twenty five. This means if you open the case you’ll be looking at twelve discs. The only problem that we have with it is that it double stacks the discs, so when you open it you’ll see twelve discs, but won’t see the extra twelve behind them.

The sleeves are made of plastic and soft fabric, as you would expect. Since each container has a two padded compartments, and the aim is to drop the cover art in the front pouch and a CD in a pouch behind it. Unless you squeeze another CD behind the cover art, you’ll only be carrying a meagre 300 CDs.

It’s a lot lighter than steel DJ cases we’ve seen, although the telescoping handle collapses into itself in four parts, and isn’t as rigid as we would have liked. There is a carry handle that’s been screwed in though, which is where you should be lifting it. The inside back section is padded with quite a bit of foam to give it a flat surface, instead of letting the handle cover protrude into the case.

Fill this baby with standard 50GB Blue Ray discs, and you have 30 Terabytes of information on wheels. If you move into the land of theoretical storage capacities and replace the 50GB discs with TDK’s prototype 200GB Blue Ray discs, that’s 120 Terabytes of storage.

We’re wondering: if we sent one of these filled with blank Blue Ray discs and a couple of bucks to archive.org, how much of The Internet: Offline Edition would they send us?