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InPhase Technologies Promises Holographic Drive in May

Posted by timothy on from the want-to-believe dept.

Anonymous Coward writes "After 8 years of effort, InPhase Technologies is shipping the world's first holographic disk drive next month. They showed it at this week's NAB. With a 300GB 5.25" disk cartridge and a 50-year media life, the Tapestry 300r is aimed at the video and film archive market. They've been promising this thing for so long I'd given up hope that they'd ever ship it!"

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  1. Finally! by bigtallmofo · · Score: 5, Funny

    I've dreamed often of the day I could buy a completely non-standard technology that rids me of large quantities of the pesky money I have lying around while at the same time solves the removable storage problems of 3 years ago. Too bad this unit only costs $18,000 and stores just under 1/3 of my hard disk space!

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    1. Re:Finally! by Solra+Bizna · · Score: 5, Funny

      It will increase in size, theoretically to infinite density.

      So it'll eventually collapse into a singularity and suck up Earth? Wonderful.

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  2. I tried to pick up a demo unit last week by davidwr · · Score: 5, Funny

    Unfortunately, my hand passed right through it.

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