World's 1st holographic storage system

Met up with Liz Murphy, marketing VP of InPhase Technologies, the company that has spent 8 years developing a practical holographic storage system.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• computer
• datastorage
• holography
• lasers
• InPhase
• NAB

[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

[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.

[alienhddna]

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

[hackertc]

that thing looks like an old floppy disk

[LooseLatitude]

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

[PerfektBlue]

@LooseLatitude

(continued)

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.

[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.

[brycebensing]

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

[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.

[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!

[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.

[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.