1 Terabyte on a disc

[Rakido]

Optware Corp., the developer of Collinear Holographic* Data Storage System, announced today that it had achieved successfully world's first recording and play back of digital movies on a holographic recording disc with a reflective layer using Optware's revolutionary Collinear Holography. This is a major milestone for commercializing holographic data storage system.

Holographic recording technology records data on discs in the form of laser interference fringes, enabling existing discs the same size as today's DVDs to store as much as one terabyte of data (200 times the capacity of a single layer DVD), with a transfer speed of one gigabyte per second (40 times the speed of DVD). This approach is rapidly gaining attention as a high-capacity, high-speed data storage technology for the age of broadband.

http://www.optware.co.jp/english/what_040823.htm

How much po..., ehm excel sheets would fit on such a beast??


Rakido

[Tjalfe]

no no... that is not proper marketing ...you are supposed to express the size in 3.5" floppies !!

the equivalent of ~69444 3.5" Floppies

Or

Enough to hold 1000000 high resolution Digital Pictures

Or

Enough to hold 250000 MP3's

etc...


Besides that, it is pretty cool that we are getting close now

[schmosef]

About ten years ago there was some noise about 3D memory cubes that used some sort of florescent pond scum or some such. Anybody remember these? Because the storage medium was 3D, it was theorized that they could hold many times more info than existing technology but that it took a long time for the info to be written/read so practical applications would need some sort of caching system that used RAM as well.

IIRC, they had the technology to write to the memory cubes but were still perfecting how to read. Or maybe it was the other way around.

[Umfriend]

Which reminds me of the joke about the guy who was asked if he could read and write. He could write alright, but when asked what he had written he replied.....

[Greebe]

IBM had holographic optical disks back in 1990

[Kooldino]

Very cool. We'll hopefully have this on our desktops within 5 years.

[Rakido]

Originally posted by Greebe
IBM had holographic optical disks back in 1990

you mean this? http://www.almaden.ibm.com/st/data_s...ography/demon/

[Technoid]

Originally posted by schmosef
About ten years ago there was some noise about 3D memory cubes that used some sort of florescent pond scum or some such. Anybody remember these? Because the storage medium was 3D, it was theorized that they could hold many times more info than existing technology but that it took a long time for the info to be written/read so practical applications would need some sort of caching system that used RAM as well.

IIRC, they had the technology to write to the memory cubes but were still perfecting how to read. Or maybe it was the other way around.

I remember when they where raving about it a few years ago, said that it would be awailable next year or so, it newer happened