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InPhase Announces 300GB Holographic Discs

Posted by timothy on from the hypthetical-chickens-taste-delicious dept.

turboflux writes "After rolling out prototype holographic drives last year, ExtremeTech reports that InPhase has announced they intend to ship drives to commercial customers in 2006. InPhase originally intended on shipping the 200GB version of their media this year. Another article on Engadget mentions that 1TB discs will be available in 2009."

7 of 234 comments (clear)

  1. Re:300gb? by sniepre · · Score: 3, Funny

    not to mention 1.0gb in 2009?? Who puts up with that kinda slow progress nowadays! In 2009 I'm expecting google's archive on a 2 disc set of (media) - none of this 1tb hosh-posh.

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  2. Finally by ShieldW0lf · · Score: 3, Funny

    Something that I can fit my music collection on!

    Where do i buy an mp3 player that can read these?

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  3. Re:O... kay... by 0x461FAB0BD7D2 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Oh I don't know. How about Google with its caches, those guys who like burying time capsules, and businesses and governments for backing up their data? I'm sure there are more, I just don't feel like marketing right now.

  4. Murphy said... by jdegre · · Score: 5, Funny

    You, guys, are not going to trust your vital data to someone called Murphy, are you? :)

    1. Re:Murphy said... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      I'd trust Robocop with my life, you insensitive clod!

  5. Re:O... kay... by Angstroem · · Score: 4, Funny
    Imagine travelling with it: "Oh jeez, Jimmy, you dropped the Holographic Disc! Now dad lost all his files."
    Au contraire... One of the strange qualities of holograms is that if you break one, each piece contains all information -- just scaled down.

    If you e.g. have a hologram showing a gallon-sized bottle and you break it into two equally sized pieces, then you have two pictures, each showing a half-gallon-sized bottle.

    So Dad would have twice as many files, but he now needs a magnifying lens for masturbating over his pr0n collection :)

  6. Re:O... kay... by hamburger+lady · · Score: 3, Funny

    If you e.g. have a hologram showing a gallon-sized bottle and you break it into two equally sized pieces, then you have two pictures, each showing a half-gallon-sized bottle.

    yeah, and if you broke those in half again, it would change into a quart bottle, and if you did it again, you would end up with 8 pictures of a pint glass.

    it gets really wacky if you keep going, you end up with a whole collection of little pictures of tablespoons.

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