dailytech.com— That long wait for holographic 3-D storage is finally over. A company called in-phase is selling a 515Mbit per square inch drive.
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Nice vid, I know that's just a prototype but damn! That's as big as a comp! Personally, I kinda missed cartridge based media. Floppies sucked, but I love that mechanical feeling of inserting and removing disks.
Yeah, that makes me wonder about how long the media lasts? I bet it's phenomenally stable compared to harddrives and other recordable, removable media.
It says the media currently holds 515 Giga bits per square inch. Note the lower case 'b', indicating bits. The upper case 'B" is for Bytes, which is made up of 8 bits. Divide the total number of bits by eight to get Bytes, so its like saying around 64 Giga Bytes per square inch. That's what the density of the media currently is, not the overall capacity of a disk.The article then goes on to say the first production platters will probably be around 300 Giga Bytes. Which is about 4.6 square inches of the 64 GB media. So, 4.6 inches is actually pretty small, its only 2.3 inches by 2.3 inches, less than a quarter the size of a CD. Very impressive.
permanent4Mar 28, 2006
Holographic storage drives are going to remain expensive for quite some time -- especially if the television industry decides to use this system to store and syndicate HD video...<a class="user" href="http://www.permanent4.com/2006/03/28/holographic-storage-this-year-finally/">http://www.permanent4.com/2006/03/28/holographic-storage-this-year-finally/</a>
viperdaimaoMar 28, 2006
Im thinking it doesnt: "515Gb of data per square inch which overshadows the capacity of the highest density magnetic platters currently in production"
alansimMar 28, 2006
They do have pictures of the prototype drive, at the InPhase website. Here's a link to a Quicktime demo:<a class="user" href="http://www.inphase-technologies.com/media/inthebox_web.wmv">http://www.inphase-technologies.com/media/inthebox_web.wmv</a>
nebunezzarMar 28, 2006
Nice vid, I know that's just a prototype but damn! That's as big as a comp! Personally, I kinda missed cartridge based media. Floppies sucked, but I love that mechanical feeling of inserting and removing disks.
thomashallockMar 28, 2006
Okay, if it's for sale ala retail, how/where do I get it if I've got the cash?
yoctoyottaMar 29, 2006
Yeah, that makes me wonder about how long the media lasts? I bet it's phenomenally stable compared to harddrives and other recordable, removable media.
amoebaMar 29, 2006
bye bye Blu-Ray and HD-DVD, bye bye...
dwatchMar 29, 2006
It says the media currently holds 515 Giga bits per square inch. Note the lower case 'b', indicating bits. The upper case 'B" is for Bytes, which is made up of 8 bits. Divide the total number of bits by eight to get Bytes, so its like saying around 64 Giga Bytes per square inch. That's what the density of the media currently is, not the overall capacity of a disk.The article then goes on to say the first production platters will probably be around 300 Giga Bytes. Which is about 4.6 square inches of the 64 GB media. So, 4.6 inches is actually pretty small, its only 2.3 inches by 2.3 inches, less than a quarter the size of a CD. Very impressive.