Holographic hard drives to come in 2006

[Jay-qu]

Current hard drive technology works by storing information on the surface of the disc, and it's rapidly approaching the point where squeezing more information on a single platter is going to be impossible with current techniques.

 

Enter holographic storage, a new technique that stores informations in three dimensions on the surface of a polymer, with excellent results in terms of storage density. This hitherto purely theoretical technique is going to be put to good use by Optware, a Japanese corporation, who is expecting to have gone through three generations of its products by the end of 2006, and who aims to break the Tetrabyte barrier by 2008 - a tall order, if you will excuse the 3D-related pun.

 

Head over to Computerworld to read more about Optware's plans for hard drive world domination, and try not to drool too much thinking about that tetrabyte of X-rated pictures all on one disc.

 

http://www.computerworld.com/hardwaretopics/storage/story/0,10801,105682,00.html

[holoman]

Current hard drive technology works by storing information on the surface of the disc, and it's rapidly approaching the point where squeezing more information on a single platter is going to be impossible with current techniques.

 

Enter holographic storage, a new technique that stores informations in three dimensions on the surface of a polymer, with excellent results in terms of storage density. This hitherto purely theoretical technique is going to be put to good use by Optware, a Japanese corporation, who is expecting to have gone through three generations of its products by the end of 2006, and who aims to break the Tetrabyte barrier by 2008 - a tall order, if you will excuse the 3D-related pun.

 

Head over to Computerworld to read more about Optware's plans for hard drive world domination, and try not to drool too much thinking about that tetrabyte of X-rated pictures all on one disc.

 

http://www.computerworld.com/hardwaretopics/storage/story/0,10801,105682,00.html

 

 

I agree hard drives are reaching their limit on increasing their capacities in the next few years of 200 gigabits per sq.in.

 

Holographic storage now in development by several companies and will take over as the premier storage product in the next few years according to Colossal Storage Corp. which says 40,000 terabits a cu.cm. will be possible !

 

http://colossalstorage.net

[Drip Curl Magic]

oh wow, the technology. jeeez. I'm definately gonna have to buy ine if those.

[Khan N. Singh]

how about processing power? :rolleyes: parallel processing seems like such a cop-out, but i guess its necessary to change software engineering to a multithreaded world view before hopefully, we jump onto newer technologies.