Company Claims Holographic Disk Breakthrough

SpinnerSpinner Birmingham, UK
edited April 2005 in Science & 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

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  • Private_SnoballPrivate_Snoball Dover AFB, DE, USA
    edited April 2005
    Who needs 1.6 TB? Honestly folks, unnecessary.
  • TheBaronTheBaron Austin, TX
    edited April 2005
    Blu-ray still has higher data transfer rates, and more cool interactive functionality (plus it has the entire motion picture industry behind it...)
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited April 2005
    Private_Snoball wrote:
    Who needs 1.6 TB? Honestly folks, unnecessary.

    Who needs more than 64k?
  • TheBaronTheBaron Austin, TX
    edited April 2005
    not me, that's for sure
  • danball1976danball1976 Wichita Falls, TX
    edited April 2005
    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.
  • RWBRWB Icrontian
    edited April 2005
    Private_Snoball wrote:
    Who needs 1.6 TB? Honestly folks, unnecessary.


    I can name many things,

    uncompressed video...
    game content...
    PORNO!
  • TheSmJTheSmJ
    edited April 2005
    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.
  • yaggayagga Havn't you heard? ... New
    edited April 2005
    Me, ooh ooh pick ME! I need more than 1.6, pick ME!
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