World's 1st holographic storage system

[alienhddna]

i bet you have to be bill gate to own one to

[hackertc]

that thing looks like an old floppy disk

[xxDungeonzxx]

Holographic storage = revolution of HDD

tb sdcards = revolution of SSD

Even if i got the wrong idea of a revolution,ITS GUNNA BE AWESOME!

[brycebensing]

i heard tht inphase and ninty is workin on somthin like this

[kowdermeister]

50 year lifetime is still very bad/few! Imageine this planet is abandoned by people and a team of explorers arrives here and finds nothing digital after 100 years.

Companies should expland storage liftime, not capacity. A DVD's ~4gig is well enough for an avarage person. Paper based books still exists after thousand years after they have written.

[timerider4]

You can buy gold archival CD-Rs that have a 300 year life. Those books just so happened to be preserved well in the right conditions. No one knows the actual lifespan for an optical disc because they haven't been around long enough yet.

[Mimbarisc]

Very true but also do remember how rapidly characteristics for storage medium is improving;

Keeping well ahead of the lifetime curve

Capacity

Bandwidth

Lifetime

Reliability

Durability

In a simple example, a medium with 50 year shelf life is sufficient enough to stay ahead. The medium in 20 years will be vastly improved with respect to shelf life and capacity.

In 20 years we will be able to store 500+ bluerays into a hardened holographic cube with speeds well beyond that of anything today.

[doseryder]

I first learned about this technology in the April 1996 edition of BYTE mag. It was a research project started IBM.

[inachu]

I have drawing plans for this in 1995 before IBM. Too bad it was my lunch break and accidently got it wet and torn..... uuugh.

It would work better if they were workign with 2 discs working in tandem.

[doseryder]

Not very convincing. Also, the research project started by IBM (partly funded by DARPA) began in late 93 (early 95), in other words, the research predates your "wet drawings"

[prayfertrey]

Does this mean we're getting closer to having to work fewer hours a week and having more leisure time?

[StorageMojo]

We just need the flying car and then we'll be there.

Robin

[prayfertrey]

How does that work?

[inachu]

A laser is guided not in a straight line but in an arch over the media

[magamiako1]

As stated before, this isn't quite the 1TB they had promised, but a great start. It's over 10x the size of even blu-ray media today (which is still out of reach for a lot of people). With the media rated at 50 years, even if it lasts only 25-30 it still far surpasses available DVD media today. No doubt that figure will go down as more companies build holographic media on the cheap. But nonetheless it is fantastic that this is not just vaporware.

[GauravA42]

so basicaly its a bluray disk in a plastic cover. great

[happytodd]

Blue ray only holds max of 50/60 gig on 1 desk. Double sided. One sided disk holds about 20gig.

[happytodd]

500TB sounds big doesnt it, And you think what the hell we would put on it. Yet if you have I believe 10TB of songs, it'll last you 27 years worth of music. But I believe there will be new ways to fill up storage devices. Like programming such things as touch. Touch is going to be a big thing with Microsoft in 2010 with the new release of windows Vianna (code name blackcombe) It'll be interesting too see how far it goes, and too read all these comments in the future to see how stupid we were :P

[LooseLatitude]

Just think 50 or 100 years down the line when they're promo'ing 500 TB stuff...

What the hell kind of stuff are we going to be putting on them? There is only so many pictures and songs...

[PerfektBlue]

@LooseLatitude

Well the storage density of data expands with the next format.

You could have all of your 2H HD videos in 700 MB SD Xvid compression. I bet the next HD 2.0 files will be bigger and go up to 100 GB for 2 h.

With music you can increase the quality also and finally abandon the crappie mp3 format and go to wav uncompressed.

[PerfektBlue]

@LooseLatitude

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I still have all of my 1 MB per game dos games , in the past years games have ballooned beyond help and they will balloon in the future the games of 2012 will take 50GB per game are you still asking why we will need 1TB storage ?

:D take care.

[LooseLatitude]

@PerfektBlue Which one of the Quests did you like best?

[happytodd]

The 1TB size of a sugar crystal would have been awesome. However they say normal DVD's can last for 100 years. Yet Im expecting this technology coming to Australia. Blue ray is still quite new for us Aussies and hardly anyone has blue ray yet.

[r32adt3db]

Not a lot of people have blu-ray here in the US either. To expensive. Most older people don't even know what it is.

[GauravA42]

what are you talking about? the ps3 is more popular here than america per capita and the same bluray players are availible here

[StorageMojo]

A hard drive doesn't have a 50 year life - neither does tape.

InPhase's roadmap has them getting 1.2 TB on a cartridge in a few years. That is pretty repspectable.

[guitarinjustin1]

haha wow those things are not going to catch on quick. They look to similar like floppy drives and no one likes those anymore. Plus it looks too easy to brake 300 GB of data. I feel more secure when carrying around an external drive.

[r32adt3db]

you can't spell the word 'break' properly. why should we listen to you?

[idrovetheepb]

All you folks that go around searching youtube comments to find spelling errors are lame.

[r32adt3db]

not my fault you dont know how to present yourself as anything other than a dumbass.

[idrovetheepb]

You should "wikipedia" the phrase 'superiority complex'. Here's an excerpt:

Those exhibiting the superiority complex commonly project their feelings of inferiority onto others they perceive as beneath them, possibly for the same reasons they themselves may have been ostracized, i.e. viewing most, possibly all others as "ugly" or "stupid", and beneath oneself.

describes you pretty well, huh?

[STMUN]

300GBs...i don't think that was the aim when i first heard of holographic storage years back but technology can only go so far

i guess a disc was more practical than a cube but the 1 TB cube would have been cool