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GE Introduces 500GB Holographic Disks
bheer writes "According to the NYTimes, at a conference next month, GE will debut their new holographic storage breakthrough — 500GB disks that will cost 10 cents a GB to produce at launch. GE will first focus on selling the technology to commercial markets like movie studios and hospitals, but selling to the broader corporate and consumer market is the larger goal."
"This could be the next generation of low-cost storage," said Richard Doherty, an analyst at Envisioneering, a technology research firm.
The G.E. development, however, could be that pioneering step, according to analysts and experts.
So a player that could read microholographic storage discs could also read CD, DVD and Blu-ray discs. But holographic discs, with the technology G.E. has attained, could hold 500 gigabytes of data.
You guys remember that cool new technology that was going to revolutionize the way we store data? The one that was just 11 years away? Well we could be one year closer to that realization today perhaps maybe.
People that know more than you and might even be experts possibly speculated that this might be a reality within some amount of time. It brings me great joy to announce to you that now we're maybe in the ballpark. You yourself have the chance to be alive when this thing hits. And it could be big.
Perhaps tomorrow it will be in my computer or the fabrication process might not ever be cheaply implemented and then we could wait longer than five years possibly. "It's so tantalizingly exciting but still just over that next hill we think," is what I said last year and now look. I may have been correct or at least within one standard deviation of time for this product.
This is exciting to the point that I very well may scream. I think now is the time to possibly ask yourself: are you ready for what might turn into something big? Because it could be around the corner.
My work here is dung.
Will this hologram technology be capable of storing a Holoduke?
There's no -1 for "I don't get it."
$0.10/gb * 500 GB = $50. I can buy a 1 TB hard drive for around $80. Why would I use this stuff?
Because it's holographic!
Posts not to be taken literally. Almost everything is sarcasm.
...and it'll store it Forever too!
That's disc, not disk.
If you sold them for less than they cost to manufacture you'd qualify for bailout money.
RS
Shoes for Industry. Shoes for the Dead.
If you sold them for less than they cost to manufacture you'd qualify for bailout money.
No. If you sold them for less than the cost of manufacture you would be a horizontally integrated Japanese manufacturer.
Prediction: The real iPhone killer is going to be sex robots from Japan. Think about it.
Can we please come up with a better term than ED to describe how superawesome our TV sets are?
So that whirring spinning noise coming from my DVD player is just a trapped hamster then ?
You must work for Verizon.
So this is one of them newfangled holodrives, eh?
Can't wait to pop this baby in and fire it up.
OH SHIT WAIT DON'T OPEN THE BOX! You can't expose these to light! FUCK!
Psssh.
Like any nerd opening one of these things up would also have sufficient ambient light to scramble the bits.
Sorry, but a command prompt doesn't give off that much light, even 2 or 3 screens worth.
It's what your data needs!
-Peter
It is the year 2109 and they have just released a disc that can hold all the data ever created by mankind. Now selling in 50 and 100 packs.
The manifest absurdity of it is too obvious to require explanation
Blu-ray Disc also uses "disc", as does the DVD Forum's semi-official expansion of DVD as "digital versatile disc". The pattern here is that optical storage uses "disc", while magnetic storage uses "disk".
And, of course, the 1990s-era magneto-optical "disck" completes the taxonomy.
sigs are hazardous to your health
So you can make a $50 coaster when Nero fails to burn the disc properly!
"His name was James Damore."
Yep. It also means all the data is stored on the surface of a sphere surrounding the disk.
I'll crawl back to my hole now,
-l
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Based on this post, it's been done for 10 years :-).
Oh, now be fair. He didn't once utter the phrases, "What?", "I don't understand" or "Where's the tea?"
-FL