HVD: Coming To A Storage Device Near You

KingFishKingFish
edited February 2005 in Science & Tech
Holographic storage drives and other products based on holographic storage technology may come to market as early as this year.
Tokyo-based Optware Corp. announced plans this week to create products based on its HVD (Holographic Versatile Disc) technology, first for the health care, oil and gas, and pharmaceutical markets, and eventually for the home market.

Optware's HVD-based products will store between 100GB and 1TB of data and be able to transmit data as fast as 1G bit per second.

Optware's announcement came on the heels of a similar announcement earlier this month from InPhase Technologies Inc. of Longmont, Colo.

InPhase recently began shipping its Tapestry HDS5000 media, a recordable holographic drive based on WORM (Write Once Read Many) technology.

A newer version, the Tapestry HDS-200R, is expected to hit the market this year. The new version will be a 200GB recordable drive with a 20 MB-per-second transfer rate.
Source: eWeek

Comments

  • KometeKomete Member
    edited February 2005
    I get lost in bit's and bytes is that fast compared to current hardrives? sounds fast hehe
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited February 2005
    20MB per second is slightly under half of the sustained transfer rates of current hard drives. 1Gbit, more kindly known as 100 megabytes per second is roughly twice the sustained transfer rates of today's hard drives.
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