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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.'"
can it hold my pr0n collection?
It will be based around PSTP: Postal Storage Transport Protocol. Mailmen will deliver holographic boxes to your door which plug into your local network delivering you that day's version of the entire Internet... No more IP address shortage, bandwidth problems, or ISPs to deal with. Ah yes.. it makes perfect sense!
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I guess we'll be ready when Professor Moriarty and the Countess Regina Bartholomew want to explore the galazy.
I think it's so sad that I remember that episode and even the name of a minor character.
OK, 515 GB per square inch, and the first product will be a 300 GB single disk. So that disk is less than a square inch? Sweet! And you thought the iPod flea was a joke...
At that point, Mr. Watkins picked up a chair and threw it across the room hitting a table in his office. Mr. Watkins then said: "Fucking Nelson Diaz (President and CEO of InPhase Technologies) is a fucking pussy. I'm going to fucking bury that guy, I have done it before, and I will do it again. I'm going to fucking kill InPhase Technologies." ....
Thereafter, Mr. Watkins resumed trying to persuade me to stay....Among other things, Mr. Watkins told me that "InPhase Technologies not a real company. It's a house of cards."
I'm sure this caller (WMV) (WMV, QT, Flash) has the same need for his image/video clip collection!
OK, now that we've had our magical holographic storage story for the year maybe it's time to move on to a story about a super parallel computer using FPGAS.
What the hell ever happened to the idea of holographic data storage on crystal planes that was all the talk in the late 60's.
The RIAA would sue us. And also you are a huge dork.
You are so boring that when I see you my feet go to sleep.
The RIAA would sue us.
So what?
And also you are a huge dork.
You have an account on slashdot. STFU.
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I can fit 515GB in a square inch.
As long as you let me stack my 1 square inch black and white tiles high enough...
*fetches ladder*
Every rule has an exception. Except this one. Oh bugger...
This sounds amazing!
I'll be installing one of these in the dashboard of my flying car later this year when they both come out.
By the way, my car runs on cold fusion.
And the in-dash computer plays Duke Nukem Forever.
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digital video of you recorded in public can be data-mined using facial feature algorithms
That's why i always wear my tinfoil sombrero in public.
something will knock them in the head and they'll realise that they can not only make huge disks the majority of consumers can't fill (yet) but they can also make smaller disks... :P
it was done by marketing!
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What respectable holographic storage is measured in square inches?
Where's my data cube?
So you're saying that the Human Brain stores all of its memory as an interference pattern of two lasers? I've heard of sharks with lasers attached to their heads, but humans? Interesting.
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That's why holohraphic storage doesn't hang. It lingers.
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