Holographic Storage Crams in 0.5TB Per Square Inch

An anonymous reader writes "VNUNet is reporting that a company called InPhase Technologies claims they have successfully recorded 515GB of data per square inch to capture the record for highest data density. From the article: 'InPhase promised to begin shipping the first holographic drive and media later this year. The first generation drive has a capacity of 300GB on a single disk with a 20Mbps transfer rate. The first product will be followed by a family ranging from 800GB to 1.6TB capacity.'"

Comments

Re:This is 1st generation

[Monkelectric]

Is there anyone paying 400$ for a 2X CD-recorder nowadays?

Apple users?

Re:Storage takes the lead

[osgeek]

Can't slashdot automatically send any submissions that contain the words "holographic" and "storage" straight into the trash?

All they're doing is trying to get some funding or increase their AdSense revenue by getting hits to their site. They're probably in league with the reporting site.

How can a Slashdot editor read a submission like that and not just shake his head sadly and hit the delete key?

It's not that I hate seeing these stories posted so much as it boggles my mind that there are people stupid or gullible enough to be taken in by them. Wouldn't you think that Slashdot editors would be chosen for their intelligence and senses of discernment? Seriously, JonKatz hasn't been around in ages as far as I know (I filtered him out way back when, so he may be around and I don't realize it).

It reminds me of seeing that John Edwards(sp?) fraud on the SciFi channel late at night. It's not that his programming was really interrupting my viewing anyway, I don't watch much late-night TV... but the notion that there were people from "my" SciFi-watching-community who were impressed enough with his crappy act to support his show... it just kinda squashes my hopes for humanity.

So, thank you, Slashdot. Thank you for pissing in my Cheerios.