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Holographic Storage a Reality in 2006?
vitaly.friedman writes "What do you do when you're getting close to the limits of 2-dimensional optical technology? Well, how many dimensions do we have to work with?" From the Ars Technica article: "How much greater data density? In the Hitachi Maxell device, a single disc about 1 cm larger in diameter than a CD will buy you 300GB. By way of contrast, HD-DVD currently offers a maximum of 30GB on a 2-layer disc, and Blu-ray tops out at 50GB. Although upgrades are in the works that promise to increase the capacity of both of those formats, even the most pie-in-the-sky predictions fall short of what is planned for merely the first commercial generation of holographic storage. Future plans for that medium include boosting the capacity to 800GB in two years, and 1.6TB per disc by 2010."
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Obviously you, sir, are not a true collector of the fine arts...
Give it a few years... 11 dimensional storage. Oh yes.
"The larger diameter prevents this."
No, unfortunatley it won't. It will TRY to prevent this.
"Hello, tech support, my dvd drive shrunk, and then it broke when i used the hammer to get the disk in....."
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Great. So when you slide your disc into the drive it spontaneously crosses the Einstein-Rosen bridge and ends up in an alternate reality.
The higher the technology, the sharper that two-edged sword.
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Techno-blog editor one: What time is it?
Techno-blog editor two: Time for another Holographic Storage article!
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I suggest a moratorium on Holographic Storage articles until some device is actually shipping from the factory floor!
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