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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."

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  1. 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.

  2. 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!

  3. 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 :)