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Select users need Blu-ray-beating capacities for optical media. Coming to their aid is holographic storage, which promises huge capacities and impressive read speeds.
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They look interesting, but is the drive really as huge as it looks in the picture?
You owe it to yourself to click here really.Originally Posted by Blitzen
I've had a demo video downloaded from the Inphase website at work for at least a year.
I'd really like to think this could be the leap in optical storage that has been needed since CDs.
Someone's going to be buggered for all those finger prints on the disc
TBH I don't think bare-disc format could going any further. As the capacity gets bigger the contaimination (dirt / fingerprint / scratches) will be the problem. I don't think protective casing really help much.
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A) the box will get smaller
B) i don't think it is for recording onto disc like a CD/DVD writer.
It's to be used in HDD's for huge amounts of storage.
A is a given, but B is wrong.
It's an optical disc storage medium to replace the likes of DVD etc, there's zero point replacing HDD's with it as they're already far beyond it in terms of storage - Hitachi have or are about to release a 1TB drive, in 4 years time you'll be well beyond the 1.6TB of this disc.
Conventional HDD's are eventually going to be replaced with flash-based variants as they're faster, run cooler, use less power, etc etc.
I can't say I'll be sorry to see mechanical HDD's go the way of the dodo
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I'm sure i read that they were going to use holographics for mass storage devices, but now that you mention it, phase memory is going to be a better contender.
There was talk a while ago of "holographic memory" chips, and another technology which stacked non-volatile ram in 3d arrays, but I've not seen much of either lately (granted, I've not actually been looking for it)
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I suppose Phase-memory has sort of phased (no pun intended.. honestly) that out...
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