Inphase begins shipping holographic storage
- Thread starter Will Rickards
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sechs
Storage? I am Storage!
I was reading about this stuff in eWeek just last night. Apparently Turner Entertainment (yes, the Boston "terrorists") has been using this stuff. At great cost, I presume.
ddrueding
Fixture
So even if we forget the $18,000 for the drive, $180 for 300GB is more than double a hard drive. Unless it was being subsidized massively, there is no way I would touch this technology.
sechs
Storage? I am Storage!
From what I understand (and this is a bit tenuous), holographic storage currently sits between tape archives and online hard disk systems. It's far more reliable and smaller than a hard disk, but accesses much faster than tape.
If I recall correctly, these folks are expecting to catch up with hard drives on the cost per gigabyte front in less than ten years. I would suggest that this means that they're going for near-line storage, where ATA disks are now making inroads.
If I recall correctly, these folks are expecting to catch up with hard drives on the cost per gigabyte front in less than ten years. I would suggest that this means that they're going for near-line storage, where ATA disks are now making inroads.