One Terabyte On a 12-inch^H^H^H^Hcm Disk

News for nerds writes: "At InterOpto'02 - international optoelectronics exhibition hold in Chiba, Japan - OPTWARE Co.Ltd. made up of ex-Sony engineers, demoed(in Japanese) 1-terabyte super-high speed optical disk system "T-VRD." It uses hologram and stores 1 terabyte data in a 12-cm-CD-size disc, with 100Mbps - 1Gbps transfer rate. Available in 2003 as 19-inch rackmount, 2005 for PC." Update: 07/16 18:33 GMT by T : Sorry, that's centimeters, not inches, which is of course even better ;)

Comments

12 inch? Try 12cm

[ebbv]

Big difference there, guys. C'mon can we pay a little attention? Yeesh.

Sounds interesting though, if only I knew japanese.

Re:12 cm or 12 inch?

[jdubois79]

According to the article, it's 12 cm.

Ah, another wonderful example of americans not being able to tell the difference between CM and IN. ;)

Re:Holographic storage?

[cybercuzco]

Babelfish's rather loose translation:

In A.D. 2101
War was beginning.
Captain: What happen ?
Mechanic: Somebody set up us the bomb
Operator: We get signal
Captain: What !
Operator: Main screen turn on
Captain: It's You !!
Cats: How are you gentlemen !!
Cats: All your base are belong to us
Cats: You are on the way to destruction
Captain: What you say !!
Cats: You have no chance to survive make your time
Cats: HA HA HA HA ....
Captain: Take off every 'zig'
Captain: You know what you doing
Captain: Move 'zig'
Captain: For great justice

I'm not sure if the translation is making it accurate or not, but it looks like this is indeed using holographic storage and not just holographic printing.

Re:12 inch? Try 12cm

[Hammer]

12-inch^H^H^H^Hcm
I do belive that our friend Timothy tried, in a subtle way, to show the 2.54^2*3.14 increase in data density.

He should have known that it would wizz over the head of some...