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Holographic Storage Slated to Hit Market This Fall

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the just-in-time-for-christmas dept.

prostoalex writes "The Guardian takes a look at the current developments in the world of holographic storage. Despite being available in research for over 40 years, the technology is getting commercialized only now, with InPhase Technologies launching its 600 GB write-once disk and a drive this fall. What avout the price? "The first holographic products are certainly not mass-market — a 600GB disc will cost around $180 (£90), and the drive costs about $18,000. Potential users include banks, libraries, government agencies and corporations.""

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  1. Good thinking by niceone · · Score: 5, Funny

    InPhase Technologies launching its 600 GB write-once disk and a drive this fall

    Good thinking. I mean, if they were launching the disk without the drive (or even the other way round) it would be a lot less likely to succeed.

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    1. Re:Good thinking by islanduniverse · · Score: 5, Funny

      I think the 600Gb storage capacity is a dead giveaway...

    2. Re:Good thinking by Mr.+Underbridge · · Score: 4, Funny

      Good thinking. I mean, if they were launching the disk without the drive (or even the other way round) it would be a lot less likely to succeed.

      Yeah, that would be like a game company shipping a console before any games are available for it. Err...wait...

    3. Re:Good thinking by Ed+Avis · · Score: 3, Funny

      3) (600 gigabytes) / (600 megabytes) = 1 024 times better
      You clearly haven't been reading Slashdot this morning. In fact it's only a lousy 1000 times better - clearly a rip-off by the optical disk makers to give you less capacity than you thought.
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    4. Re:Good thinking by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Our company stored mass amounts of files on smaller optical disks 700 MB
      when our business insurance man found out or entire companies data was on 1 CD
        He raised our premiums by another 4000 pound per month
      quoting
      ID theft and data loss is a risk You must not store that much data in one place
      the point of the above is :
        There are probably good reasons to use huge storage capacity and just as many reasons to not use it.

      Huge disks =Bigger data loss potential , what's next for this stuff ?
      drives for use on a laptop?

      Can anyone foresee a company losing all of their data ?
      I can see it ! Bigger may notalwaqys be better

    5. Re:Good thinking by rbanffy · · Score: 3, Funny

      Make that 20 years and your chances of reading a valid Excel 2007 file in Excel 2027 are every bit as small as a hash collision.

      "What is a 'file', granpa?"

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  2. I'll pass by cowscows · · Score: 4, Funny

    If the storage medium is anything other than a small, transparent, and slightly iridescent cube; then I'm not interested. Discs are so 90's.

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  3. Help me... by Yonder+Way · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...Obi-Wan Kenobi; you're my only hope!

  4. Forget the capacity... by macraig · · Score: 3, Funny

    ... holographic storage will be soooo much better for saving pr0n.