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Holographic Storage Overview at CNET
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.
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.
-- Thou hast strayed far from the path of the Avatar.
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
yeah, and I could use a kick-ass spell checker
(In my defense, it's late and English is not my mother tongue)
This is all well and good, but how many Libraries of Congress can this new technology hold? What is its bandwidth in LOC/s?
qslack.com
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