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Am I the only one still waiting for holographic TV to one day show up out of nowhere?

With a 50-year archive life, I predict major film studio vaults will be all over this.

David Bowman disconnected HAL... Frank Poole was the other guy (killed outside the ship... to be revived in the year 3000).

When can i have sex with it?

Whenever I hear the term 'holographic' I always think of this phrase "Please state the nature of the medical emergency."

Let's hope this doesn't become another format war... Sony comes up with HoloBlu and Toshiba releases HoloHD... Here we go again...

It was Dave Bowman that disconnected HAL. His crew mate, Frank Poole was already gone by then.

neat!

It looks like a 5.25" floppy and a DVD-R forgot to use safe data copying practices.

That article did little to give specs on the drive/media. What's the read rate? What's the write rate? What sort of connector is being used? What type of lasers? Rewritable?
The media looks exactly like when CD-ROMs first came out and you had the CD inside the cartridge.
$180 for 300GB of write-once media would suck.

Soon every little piece of cutting edge technology will render us the quantum computer. Storage devices like this coupled with the computing power of quantum mechanics equals a computer that could crack the Pentagon's encryption in about an hour.

Dugg because in 20 years someone will have put this in a microwave and blender to see what happens.

Am I the only one disappointed that it's not solid state?

Don't get me wrong, it's awesome tech but there is so much extra crap that enters the equation when you have moving parts.
(ask any MiniDisc enthusiast)

Reminds me of an old school IOMEGA...wonder how long before the size is compacted and that smaller look will be affordable. 10 years maybe?

Turner Entertainment tested this in 2005.http://www.computerworld.com/hardwaretopics/storag ...
The price will go down. I have an PCMag from 93 with a cd burner for around $3500.

can anyone remember that holographic arcade cowboy shoot em thing? I think sega made it.

dugg for the format : 5.25″ FLOOPY LIVES!

I honestly don't see this catching on any time too soon. I don't see much value in it. Maybe if the drive will scale up with future media densities..

LTO-4 drives are around $5k now, and tapes with a native capacity of 800GB for around $150. Shelf life of tapes are rated lower at 30 years, but I find it hard to trust a 50 year claim from a very new technology.

LTO-5 drives are media are already on the horizon, too With its storage rated at 1.6TB, this is going to have to play some catch up to have a serious stake in the enterprise backup market.

Holo-vid or it didn't happen.

...and why doesn't Batman dance anymore?

Anyone know how fast it is?

Holograhpic storage nothing, it looks like these people have secretly invented time travel and hired a design student from 1985 to create the look of their device and logo.

Another hyped article.
FTA: "Since there’s no physical contact you can read the media millions of times with no degradation."
HDD, cdrom, dvd, blueray,... NONE of those require physical contact of the storage medium to read the data. That doesn't mean the physical media won't degrade.

Also fta: "photographic media has the longest proven lifespan - over a century - of any modern media."
PHOTOGRAPHIC MEDIA, not holographic media. That's like saying your radial all-weather car tires will last for melinia because the wheel has been around for even longer.

writes @ 120mb/sec SCSI w/ practically UNLIMITED STORAGE !
archive net file storage whoas

This is pretty much the ultimate archiving format. Maybe in the future we'll use terabyte-sized holodisks to store fully 3-D movies and games.

300 GB discs... That's a lot of porn...

Did anyone else think the title was talking about storage ships made from holograms sailing the seas?

My practical concern with this is security/privacy implications. From what this article says and what little I knew before I don't think you can DELETE your data! Its basically a huge permanent storage device, great for storing volumes of data but not for covering your ass when the FBI raids your house.

YES !!! Floppy drives are back.. lol

I thought this was available a while ago. I remember reading at least 5 years back about a holographic storage product that would be coming on the market. It actually looked suspiciously like this one. The read/write rates were terrible though.

They claimed CDROM media would have an archive life of hundreds of years, and they were wrong. Depending on the kind you buy, the ink degrades real fast and becomes pocked with holes. Maybe 10-20 years tops. Store yours in a cool, dark, dry place.

The reality is, in every day use, CDROM media has and extremely shorter life, esp. when used for data. The problem stems from the foolish idea to distribribute them without a cartridge sleeve. Idiots, *****, and kids lay them down on anything, the get scratched up as fast as an ipod, and it only takes one scratch from setting it down on something to ruin a disk. The proper way to handle CDROM media is to hold it by the edge and center circle with your finger in it, and then put it back in a CDROM case just as soon as you are done with it. Not a sleeve, not a jacket, not sitting on a piece of paper, or the desk, or on the floor, or on the seat of your car. In the early days you could do this with music cds because the data was so redundant and inefficiently stored... but when used as computer media, to store real data, no, you've got to handle them like butterflies. Use dishwashing liquid soap to clean your finger prints off them, and Glass Plus.

imagine 15 years from now, this beast will be the size of our pinky toe, i know it.

From the comments:

"Your explanation is ***** insane - this isn't a great deal to do with encoding images into a medium, but rather to allow a disc to be written with a bit of data stored in an area the same as a square with same dimensions as the wavelength of the light beam used to encode it."

"with the same dimensions," even.

Duh.

Sleepy.

But let me ask you THIS... let me ask you THIS... can it kick MY ass?

fisrt thing i thought when i seen this is....80's style backup storage...seriously, this thing looks bulky and annoying...still, im a consumer not a buisness, probaly not targeting me

Make room in the dumpster for this pile of *****

welcome to the future

26 seconds of uncompressed HD? WHOA!

I see this and think Syquest. Moving parts suck. This should be solid state.

Oops! Dropped it.

The best Tape Backups can write at 80MB/s... They needs to multiply their read and write speeds by 5x and get the storage of media to 1TB+ and now we are talking! Hopefully this happens in the Next 5 Years

so if i boght this could i use it?