Holographic Storage June 21

[Albion Knight]

Holographic Storage June 21

Media Distributors To Showcase First Ever Holographic Storage System in US on June 21

What is Holographic Storage?
Holography breaks through the density limits of conventional storage by going beyond recording only on the surface, to recording through the full depth of the medium. Its combination of speed, form factor, capacity and long archival life make it ideal for video asset management.

Guess who is a major player in this technology, Sony. Come on guess because I just told you it's Sony DailyTech - Sony Ups Holographic Storage Speed More Than 30 Fold

Holds approximately 150,000,000 pages of text (Approx. 500,000 300-page books)
on a single disc at 160Mbps
• Records and reads 1.2 million bits of data at a time
• Comparable to mid-range tape with high capacity and transfer rate
• Conversion from tape to holographic disc saves space, decreases
maintenance and increases longevity of data life
• More than 63 times the capacity of DVD (4.7GB vs 300GB)
• Approximately 35 times the capacity of double layer DVD (8.5GB vs. 300GB)
• More than 14 times the transfer rate of DVD (11.08Mbps vs. 160Mbps)​

http://maxell-usa.com/getpdf.aspx?id=203

The speed is significant because the DVD is the slowest part of a computer after the floppy and the Internet

 

[Dark Drakan]

Re: Holographic Storage June 21

Just hope more games actually use the space they are being given, otherwise it will be a waste of time and money right now as nothing is close to using that sort of space. Even massive games like Oblivion fit on one DVD disc.

 

[Albion Knight]

Re: Holographic Storage June 21

True filling that much space would take decades given the current design cycle.

However the speed could have an immediate impact. You could run a virus free read only OS from disk at the same speed as the hard drive.

It's a future technology more for storage. An complete PC backup on on disk. A seven season TV show on one disk etc.

Not likely that people would want to pay the extra cost for that nor that a company would want to rick loosing $ since they probably stand to make more by selling smaller amounts of video.

I still think that direct to disk will become more prevalent in the future. Especially if companies like Netflix and Blockbuster get into the game or if Microsoft expands its offering directly or through partnerships. If you could get any movie in an hour or two without leave the house why would you choose another format.