Blu-ray or HD-DVD… How ’bout neither?
Alright, I mentioned once I’d post occasionally about nifty technology I’d come accross. I thought it’s about time I did.
InPhase technologies has recently developed a gel-like film that has allowed it make the first publicly available Holographic Drive, with a storage capacity of 300GB. That’s 6 times the size of a dual-layer Blu-ray disc, and this is only the first version. By 2010 InPhase expects to have Holographic disks that can hold 1.6TB of data. That’s enough space for approximately 400,000 songs, or 37 hours of HD video. Also, with a write speed of 960Mbits/sec it will create those massive disks at about 30 times the speed of current technologies.
Unfortunately for us, with a price tag for the drive of $18,000 and another $180 per disk, this technology isn’t all that available to most of us. Hopefully more consumer friendly prices can be expected in another 2-3 years though. For more information about the technology check out InPhase’s website.
My laptop has under 10G worth of memory.
Stop making fun of me.
Well, as of right now the disks aren’t re-writable, so your little hard drives have that goin’ for ‘em.
No worries Psyfall, my old Toshiba Satellite is an AMD K6 475Mhz with 256Kb RAM and a 4G HD. Oh, and did I mention it still runs Win98? Yeah, it’s the only platform I can play my old DOS games on reliably. ;-p