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Will Rickards
02-13-2007, 11:22 AM
http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2007/02/13/inphase_shipping_holographic/
P5-133XL
02-13-2007, 12:13 PM
just a hair too spendy for me.
sechs
02-13-2007, 02:24 PM
I was reading about this stuff in eWeek just last night. Apparently Turner Entertainment (yes, the Boston "terrorists") has been using this stuff. At great cost, I presume.
ddrueding
02-13-2007, 04:06 PM
So even if we forget the $18,000 for the drive, $180 for 300GB is more than double a hard drive (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822152042). Unless it was being subsidized massively, there is no way I would touch this technology.
sechs
02-14-2007, 02:34 PM
From what I understand (and this is a bit tenuous), holographic storage currently sits between tape archives and online hard disk systems. It's far more reliable and smaller than a hard disk, but accesses much faster than tape.

If I recall correctly, these folks are expecting to catch up with hard drives on the cost per gigabyte front in less than ten years. I would suggest that this means that they're going for near-line storage, where ATA disks are now making inroads.