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Spinner
21 Apr 2005, 11:50pm
Inphase Technologies (http://www.inphase-tech.com/) reckons it can squeeze 200 gigabits on a single square inch of optical disk. The company uses holographic storage techniques which can deliver high capacities by recording data throughout the volume of the recording material, and not just on the surface.

InPhase said is uses a patented polytopic recording method to squeeze 300 gigabytes (GB) capacity on a single disk. It says that by 2009 it will be selling disks with up to 1.6 terabyte (TB) capacity.
Source: Inphase (http://www.inphase-tech.com/news/terabyte_benchmark.html)
Private_Snoball
22 Apr 2005, 5:38pm
Who needs 1.6 TB? Honestly folks, unnecessary.
TheBaron
22 Apr 2005, 7:21pm
Blu-ray still has higher data transfer rates, and more cool interactive functionality (plus it has the entire motion picture industry behind it...)
Thrax
22 Apr 2005, 7:57pm
Who needs 1.6 TB? Honestly folks, unnecessary.

Who needs more than 64k?
TheBaron
22 Apr 2005, 8:00pm
not me, that's for sure
danball1976
22 Apr 2005, 11:08pm
Who needs more than 64k?

Uh, wasn't that "Nobody will need more than 640K?" And it was the head of Microsoft that said it was well.
RWB
23 Apr 2005, 3:31am
Who needs 1.6 TB? Honestly folks, unnecessary.


I can name many things,

uncompressed video...
game content...
PORNO!
TheSmJ
23 Apr 2005, 7:52am
Uh, wasn't that "Nobody will need more than 640K?" And it was the head of Microsoft that said it was well.

Yes and yes.
yagga
24 Apr 2005, 6:21am
Me, ooh ooh pick ME! I need more than 1.6, pick ME!