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Holographic Storage Overview at CNET

Posted by timothy on from the smoosh-smoosh-smoosh dept.

encebollado writes: "CNET has an article about how holography is being used to create next generation storage devices. The researchers promise they'll beat out DVD by an order of magnitude." Actually, it's an overview with four separate articles -- no bets on when the technology covered will really be available though.

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  1. I say Ship It or Shut Up! by Dr.+Ion · · Score: 2, Funny

    I am SO SICK of hearing about this damn holographic storage. It has been polluting print media with wild-eyed hype since the days before Internet. I remember reading about this very thing back when Winchester was shipping 32MB 5.25" hard disks.
    "Two to five years away" my ass.

    Call me when it's in stock. Maybe Duke Nukem Forever can ship on Holographic crystals.

    1. Re:I say Ship It or Shut Up! by Lord_Slepnir · · Score: 2, Funny

      Look at the name of this site. "News for nerds...". If you want a review of what's out, go to Tom's Hardware If you want to know what he might have on his site in 5-10 years, then you look here.

  2. Professor Moriarty by dfn5 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Every hologram storage unit will come with a demo Professor Moriarty simulation that will commandeer your computer until you discover a way to beam him out.

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    1. Re:Professor Moriarty by TheCyko1 · · Score: 1, Funny

      well if that happens you can always send a distress message out in a trashcan shaped droid.

      ... help us Obiwan, your our only hope.

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  3. "an overview with four separate articles" by jeffehobbs · · Score: 4, Funny


    Actually, it's an overview with four separate articles...

    It's interesting to note that articles about holography can be broken/cut into multiple pieces, and each piece will retain a full and exact copy of the original article.

    ~jeff

  4. Re:my eggs are in the IBM basket by fons · · Score: 4, Funny


    yeah, and I could use a kick-ass spell checker

    (In my defense, it's late and English is not my mother tongue)

  5. OK OK by qslack · · Score: 3, Funny

    This is all well and good, but how many Libraries of Congress can this new technology hold? What is its bandwidth in LOC/s?

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  6. "write-only media" DOH! by RockyJSquirel · · Score: 3, Funny

    The "InPhase plan" page says
    Likewise, the company says its research shows that the media can be used in a rewritable format but won't discuss specifics for anything but its write-only product.

    They must have meant "write once" or "read only". A disk you can write to but not read from would be less useful, eh?

    Rocky J. Squirrel