One Terabyte Hologram CD’s?

28 Aug, 2004 at 12:47pm ET Article published in Tech

Optware Corp., the developer of Collinear Holographic* Data Storage System, announced today that it had achieved successfully world’s first recording and play back of digital movies on a holographic recording disc with a reflective layer using Optware’s revolutionary Collinear Holography.

Holographic recording technology records data on discs in the form of laser interference fringes, enabling existing discs the same size as today’s DVDs to store as much as one terabyte of data (200 times the capacity of a single layer DVD), with a transfer speed of one gigabyte per second (40 times the speed of DVD). This approach is rapidly gaining attention as a high-capacity, high-speed data storage technology for the age of broadband.

Whoa! I hope this is a viable technology that comes to market with a reasonable price. -KF

Source: Optware

Comments

28 Aug 2004 ~ 1:36pm kanezfan of course this will probably never see the light of day any time soon because the major companies are backing much smaller capacity technologies
28 Aug 2004 ~ 3:01pm Omega65 I'll believe it when I see it. Companies have been talking about holographic storage technologies for 20+ years.
28 Aug 2004 ~ 3:41pm Sputnik This is a good solution to help stop piracy though. higher capacity = less chance of people doing a strait dump of the material to hard disk for instance.

then again, who am i kidding? in 2-3 years when this *may* be starting to gain steam, 1TB probably will be common place
28 Aug 2004 ~ 3:53pm Geeky1 In 2-3 years, 1TB or more should be the norm, yes. I mean, I've got 640GB in the dual athlon system now.
28 Aug 2004 ~ 4:52pm kanezfan

Geeky1 wrote:

In 2-3 years, 1TB or more should be the norm, yes. I mean, I've got 640GB in the dual athlon system now.

yes cause we can all afford to blow as much money as you...
28 Aug 2004 ~ 5:22pm Thrax

kanezfan wrote:

yes cause we can all afford to blow as much of our grandparent's money as you...

Edited for accuracy.
28 Aug 2004 ~ 6:02pm EMT Hehe...
Sounds pretty neat, I hate running out of space. But I'm not holding my breath.
29 Aug 2004 ~ 1:04am RWB Looks interesting, but why the hell can't they come up with a better/cheaper method for solid state storage? WHY!?!?!
29 Aug 2004 ~ 2:45am Geeky1

kanezfan wrote:

yes cause we can all afford to blow as much money as you...

Yeah, well that's one of the advantages of having a job, but no bills to pay, isn't it?

Thrax wrote:

Edited for accuracy.

Most of my toys are paid for out of my own pocket. My grandparents have given me two desktops, and two laptops. But all of the upgrades to those (and nothing remains of either one, except the case, power supply, and optical drives out of the 1.4 TBird) the other systems, replacement parts, etc. I paid for.
So there.
30 Aug 2004 ~ 2:30pm croc_

Geeky1 wrote:

Yeah, well that's one of the advantages of having a job, but no bills to pay, isn't it?

Most of my toys are paid for out of my own pocket. My grandparents have given me two desktops, and two laptops. But all of the upgrades to those (and nothing remains of either one, except the case, power supply, and optical drives out of the 1.4 TBird) the other systems, replacement parts, etc. I paid for.
So there.

But it was still funny.
28 Sep 2004 ~ 4:57pm Stitch i give it a few years before its the norm.. i just found something like

http://www.optware.co.jp/english/what_040823.htm

hmm ironic? also 1 tb hd is only like 1000 so its getting alittle more common in a aspect.