Company Claims Holographic Disk Breakthrough

21 Apr, 2005 at 6:50pm ET Article published in Tech

Inphase Technologies 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

Comments

22 Apr 2005 ~ 12:38pm Private_Snoball Who needs 1.6 TB? Honestly folks, unnecessary.
22 Apr 2005 ~ 2:21pm TheBaron Blu-ray still has higher data transfer rates, and more cool interactive functionality (plus it has the entire motion picture industry behind it...)
22 Apr 2005 ~ 2:57pm Thrax

Private_Snoball wrote:

Who needs 1.6 TB? Honestly folks, unnecessary.

Who needs more than 64k?
22 Apr 2005 ~ 3:00pm TheBaron not me, that's for sure
22 Apr 2005 ~ 6:08pm danball1976

Thrax wrote:

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.
22 Apr 2005 ~ 10:31pm RWB

Private_Snoball wrote:

Who needs 1.6 TB? Honestly folks, unnecessary.

I can name many things,

uncompressed video...
game content...
PORNO!
23 Apr 2005 ~ 2:52am TheSmJ

danball1976 wrote:

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.
24 Apr 2005 ~ 1:21am yagga Me, ooh ooh pick ME! I need more than 1.6, pick ME!