Blu-Ray… Bow Down to Holographic Storage
bucho @ 8:42 pm April 16th, 2006
Bulky? Yes. Practical? Depends. Cool? Most definately.
InPhase Technologies has been the leader in developing holographic data storage for some time now. They have blown away the records for data density many times, and once again they made a new record on March 27, 2006.
InPhase Technologies, the world’s leader in holographic data storage, announced today that it has demonstrated the highest data density of any commercial technology by recording 515 gigabits of data per square inch.
Not only that, but they will deliver the industry’s first holographic drive and media later this year. The first generation drive has a capacity of 300 gigabytes on a single disk with a 20 megabyte per second transfer rate. The first product will be followed by a family ranging from 800GB to 1.6 terabyte (TB) capacity.
No doubt the first several holographic drives will be far too expensive for the everyday consumer to buy, but it is all a matter of time before they start dropping. The discs themselves are not supposed to be very expensive at all to manufacture. Disappointingly they require an outer housing like a Zip Disk.
April 16th, 2006 at 10:24 pm
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh sooooo cool…… But I always thought these things were going to be like cube shaped or something. Not like disks.
April 17th, 2006 at 5:48 am
Whats cool is that they could do anything. About a year ago I was reading that if they overlaid some of the holographic storage material on the eye of George Washington on the one dollar bill that it could store an entire novel worth of data. All of the storage tests I have seen pictures of they do tests with cubes of the storage material. I think that the disk form is the cheapest way that you can do something like this, but cubes would be much cooler. :)
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