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- chokeyou, on 10/12/2007, -3/+22I can't remember.
- mfratt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14I hear the early models will be in the range of 50TB. Not worth 5 figures to the consumer, but imagine a company being able to have a centralized storage unit for all its systems. Access speeds will be unbelievable since there are no moving parts to restrict speed.
- bansai, on 10/12/2007, -3/+12Daewoo hasnt confirm whether a retail unit will be made, but In-phase said that their holographic storage unit will be out in the market this year. Digg here http://www.digg.com/hardware/First_Retail_holographic_Storage_ almost a month ago
- jaxshores, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Imagine telling our grandchildren about the hard-drives we used to use back in the day.
- goat77, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7No... Please seek help.
- tavisjohn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6" "When i had a laptop, it used a battery, and had a fan, and a hard disk. You guys are spoiled! my laptop could cook eggs, these newfangled things are teeny, and no moving parts! i remember when 2.5 inch HD's broke the 100 GB mark, it was such a big deal. Now what do you have here? 100 TB? its all holographic, right? nothins movin... and its all solar powered..." "
When I was a kid I had to walk up hill to school... Both ways in 4 feet of snow, for 10 miles, even in the summer! And I was chased by a pack of rabid dogs the whole time! I had to milk the cows and gather the eggs before school, and after school I had to bail hey and do other farm chores and my homework before I could have dinner.... And worst of all my iPod only held 4 gig of music! - dasnov, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Not exactly. Holographic memory stores data in high density crystals, where as the brain does not.
- superal1394, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6"When i had a laptop, it used a battery, and had a fan, and a hard disk. You guys are spoiled! my laptop could cook eggs, these newfangled things are teeny, and no moving parts! i remember when 2.5 inch HD's broke the 100 GB mark, it was such a big deal. Now what do you have here? 100 TB? its all holographic, right? nothins movin... and its all solar powered..."
- rowanjl, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7If its up to the same standards as most Daewoo poducts, you can expect stable usage for up to around three days, then the nuts holding it together will suddenly loosen, and the disks will need to be re-aligned...
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9This is how the crystaline entity got it start. All from a single crc error on a holographic drive.
- superal1394, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5The brain creates "neuronetworks" that in some unknown way retain memory, the reason they degrade is because the cells die, or the connections break. I believe. wikipedia has a very detailed article on Human memory, just search "Memory"
- bytesmythe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4@dasnov
"Holography" refers to any system in which the information is distributed holistically throughout the system. Neural networks are a type of holographic storage device. - racketboy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Tried looking up this in Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holographic_memory
So is holographic supposed to be more reliable? - animecrazy9, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAH. OMG... 3 in the morning, you just made my day. night?
(p.s. just to clarity, i'm saying i hope TO GOD you're joking) - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3A single point of failure for something that is likely also expensive? Yyyyyno. Any smart company will use a SAN cluster or something similar.
- MikeCampo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3So sad...
- geekinhiding, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I don't know about Daewoo being the first on this one. Building from the InPhase link above, I remember Patrick Norton on TWIT mentioning that Maxell was working with InPhase on releasing one later this year. Here is a link to Maxell's press release from last November on their tech:
http://www.maxell-usa.com/content/pages/Page.asp?Section=pressreleases&department=maxellusa_pr&Line=datapr&Open=datapr41 - dhughes, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4 Because the link to the Portuguese site Hanthus supplied shows it will probably be 300GB, you don't need to able to read Portuguese to understand that.
You could also click the link about InPhase Technologies in the article and also see 300GB was going to be the first capacity of the unit. - ChileanGoD, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Are there RAID 0 versions.? .. to get mor or less 1.5 times the bandwith :).
- deepsub, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3yeah.. back in the mid 80's, I used to work with a machine that had a 10MB hard drive that was the size of a toaster oven on an Apple IIe. It was a network server for slave machines that ran Logo.
- eaasness, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3@mfratt
It may be fast, but there are moving parts "The CompactRIO system controls a linear motor, a stepper motor, a galvo mirror, and a CMOS camera." These will inevitably eventually fail. - eaasness, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Was going to say I thought I saw this before.
http://digg.com/hardware/Hologram_from_Maxell_with_1.6_TB_storage_space_120_MBPs_transfer_speed
links to
http://www.maxell-usa.com/Content/Pages/Page.asp?Section=pressreleases&department=maxellusa_pr&Line=datapr&Open=datapr41
Guess the good news is there will be competition to drive prices down quicker. - DougTanner, on 10/12/2007, -4/+6Apparantly our brains use holographic storage, that's why our memories become "fuzzy", we can still reconstruct a low-resolution version of the original, which degrades over time. Was what I've been told accurate?
- MikeCampo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Lots of holographic storage stories this week. I hope they can increase access speeds and eventually replace current hard drives.
- ccanni1028, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2twister- It most likely isn't, but jpt's point is that it is possible. You can't tell the size because there is nothing to compare it to.
- burke, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4I wonder what the storage density (current or possible) is with this technology.
- kneeare, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2ever heard of a conglomerate?
- sishgupta, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Hahaha don't digg the parent down its a really funny joke if you "get" it.
heres for all the people who don't get it:
http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Crystalline_Entity - dasnov, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2What ever happened to reading TFA?
- Permanent4, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Between this and all the stories about InPhase's holographic storage projects, Digg is going to need its own holographic storage category by the end of the month.
- cheerio, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Finally, a solution that is reliable. Something finally able to keep up with the CPU.
Wiki ->
It offers the possibility of storing 1 terabyte(TB) of data in a sugar-cube-sized crystal.
Data from more than 1000 CDs could fit on a holographic memory system. - karch, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1WEEABOO
- CornStarch, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2This story brings more questions than answers to my mind. I already know holographic storage devices are out there, but where what why and how are the things I need to know.
- TransmitThis, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1It will come out after we have all spent our cash on blue ray and HDDVD
no point surpassing those two, said the man at the top with the big house ;) - chanon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1From
http://sine.ni.com/csol/cds/item/vw/p/id/685/nid/124300
"holographic storage promises to accelerate data transfer rates to about one billion bits per second, reduce access times to just tens of microseconds, and increase storage densities toward a theoretical maximum of one trillion bits per cubic centimeter." - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1single point of failure? a cool part of holograms is they can take alot of damage before seriously losing data, a scratch may slow down read times but will still be readable.
- redwire, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2"Who... The HELL... Cares...About he... PORTUGUESE... Translation???????"
I am guessing the 219 million people who speak Portugese as a first language? - WaterDragon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Don't worry. I saved the link to the funny video that one digger put in the comments.
"Call Center" movie:
http://www.callcentermovie.com/movie/movie2.html - kozie, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2"Who... The HELL... Cares...About he... PORTUGUESE... Translation???????"
I am guessing the 219 million people who speak Portugese as a first language?...
I hope you're not being serious, besides the fact that it was about the 300GB number, posting ONE of the major languages spoken in the world because people speak it means what? You guessed it! Post the top 20.. Is that gonna happen, WHY NOT?! - jrbrewin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1that'll be the daewoo
- Cheeze_Head, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Where is the CHECKOUT NOW button?
At least the mainstream media doesn't sensationalizes their stories as much as Digg submitters - karch, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I was convinced this post was a joke until I took a look at the rest of his posts.
"how about a mac.digg.com site and then all youyou jobshova witnesses can leave the rest of us poor bastards alone with this mac rumor *****, its tired, your worse then star wars fans, trust me I know I am one."
Yep, we've got a genuine retard here. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0i wouldnt buy it, here is why, have you ever owned anything Daewoo ??? hahaha Its by far the worst electronics you can by, next to LG! I have owned a Daewoo cd player which broke 5 times, and had to be sent off, until the point that i finally threw it away. I own a Daewoo dvd player, it was great at playing dvds ( copied and not) until 6 months later, now i have to turn it off, and on, and unplug it, and re plug it, just to get it to load, all the while it has just been shelf kept.
I wouldnt buy a Daewoo harddrive for 10 bux and expect my data to be safe on it for years to come. - edenlover, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1On South Park, all Canadians are made so that there head opens and close when they talk. Like Terrace, Phillip and Jefferson.
- binaryspiral, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3Stepper motors, cmos cameras? Ack thpt... nice concept but it won't be holding my MP3 collection any time soon.
- kicko, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Thats good one!!!
- Jammerdelray, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0daewoo? the cars they made really sucked.
- jpt62089, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2How can you tell? It could be like 3"x4"!
- rm999, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Seriously, why is a crappy car company making computer storage? Sounds like a bloated company to me.
- alexras, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Storage density aside, I want to know what kind of latency these things have. No rotational delay or seek time ... sweet!
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