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300 gigabytes in the size of a DVD?
Rollie Hawk writes "Although storage space is no longer the premium it once was, physical backups and external media have been slow to catch up. While recordable DVDs may be fine for backing up a single workstation, large servers are still forced to rely on swappable drives and tape backups. But holographic disc technology could be changing all of that in the very near future. Holographic Versatile Discs (HVDs) have been in the works for some time now by various companies, including InPhase Technologies (formerly part of Lucent) and Japan's Optware (which claimed to have made the first recording of a movie on a holographic disc last year). InPhase's HVDs, scheduled for release in 2006, are said to hold 300GB of data, 60 times that of a conventional DVD with only a slight increase in size. That translates to more than a day's worth of HD-quality video. Not to mention the drives themselves can read and write at ten times the speed a normal DVD drive. One of InPhase's partners in HVD research, Maxell, is working towards even more storage on a 1.6TB disc."
Hmm, maybe now they can put the entire Lord of the Rings Triliogy on one disc. now, if you want to put in the extra features, that is a different story...
the Phantom will contain one of these when it comes out...
If you could angle it at around 15degrees you could fit it in. Not sure how that would affect the centripetal force as the disc spins though.
Cool, now I can lose all of my data by just misplacing a single disk. Ain't that grand?
"I'm never quite so stupid as when I'm being smart" (Linus van Pelt)
Is 300 GB necessary?
Who's ever going to need more than 640K of RAM? How about that world market for maybe five computers? In fact, there is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home. attributable to Bill Gates (who denies the quote), Thomas Watson, and Ken Olson, respectively
Moore's Law states that computing power and storage density at a given price point doubles every 18 months, which has roughly held to be true. This technology is filling in a required data point on the curve. The quotes above illustrate this lesson of history - just because you can't imagine the need != the need does not exist.
Besides, MS is going to need this to distribute the next version of Windows.
"Hey, the third matrix movie would have been good except for the plot,story, and acting." --AC
magnetic media can only do so much in a serial manor
You know, I have problems myself in serial manors. In fact, I find that being forced to go through the kitchen and bathroom to get the guest bedroom can be embarrassing for all involved.
You can't fit a 13cm disc drive into a standard enclosure! Who do they think they're going to sell these to!
Laser disk diehards!