Holographic disks with 1TB of storage!!!

Infini · 06-01-2005 5:06pm #1

I found this article on google news. Its quite Interesting...
http://www.vnunet.com/news/1160309

Capt'n Midnight · 06-01-2005 11:23pm

It's the technology of the future, always was , always will be..

Been seeing articles about crystal / holographic storage over the last 20 years, when they appear in shops I'll believe.

jessy · 09-01-2005 3:06pm

ya would be nice if it ever arrived, it dont think the amount of data that can be stored is a huge selling point, LaCie already have 1T on a disk, I think its the read Write speed that somthing needs to be done about (read and write at 200-500 Mb per Sec, now that would be a nice breakthrough).

gline · 10-01-2005 4:04pm

http://www.tomshardware.com/hardnews/20050104_142527.html

seamus · 10-01-2005 4:14pm

Look very bulky and unweildy at the moment. Seems to me that perhaps they may get lost in the ether. We are a few years yet from requiring removable ROM storage at these kinds of sizes. Many movies still don't fill DVDs, even with tonnes of extras. The only way I can see these coming onboard is to convince people to buy movies in bulk - You order say 8 movies, they're burned onto a single holographic disc, and sent out to you for €50 or whatever.

If this kind of technology could be adapted and increased in speed to seriously compete with current HDD technology, then maybe. Otherwise I see them as being too much ahead of their time now, but once their time actually comes, they'll be obsolete.

gline · 10-01-2005 4:30pm

True, isnt blueray going to replace normal dvds anyway??

Ciaran500 · 10-01-2005 5:48pm

Blu ray and HDDVD will be the next disc mediums.

gline · 11-01-2005 8:50am

Ciaran500 wrote:

Blu ray and HDDVD will be the next disc mediums.

ah yes thats how you spell it, whoops

Holographic disks with 1TB of storage!!!

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