Holographic Hard Drives To Comming Your Way!

[abhay 0]

Current hard drive technology works by storing information on the surface of the disc, and it's rapidly approaching the point where squeezing more information on a single platter is going to be impossible with current techniques.

Enter holographic storage, a new technique that stores informations in three dimensions on the surface of a polymer, with excellent results in terms of storage density. This hitherto purely theoretical technique is going to be put to good use by Optware, a Japanese corporation, who is expecting to have gone through three generations of its products by the end of 2006, and who aims to break the Tetrabyte barrier by 2008 - a tall order, if you will excuse the 3D-related pun.

Head over to Computerworld to read more about Optware's plans for hard drive world domination, and try not to drool too much thinking about that tetrabyte of X-rated pictures all on one disc.

results faster access speeds, better cooling, huge disk space which we all need after TRUE broadband comes in

any 1 more info about it

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Edited October 28, 2005 by abhay

[Utsav 0]

Ever heard of Blu-ray Disk and Multi-layer Fluoroscent Disks? Do they operate on same principle?

[ashoksoft 83]

well blu-ray is a technology on Pure optical media like DVD's where astounding storage capablities have been attained..

whereas this Holographic HDD seems to be something where erasure is not quite an issue..

Cheers

Ashok

[Utsav 0]

What do you mean by not quite an issue?

[ashoksoft 83]

I mean ... if it is a HDD "READ AND WRITE" is the keyword.. and if it is a DVD ... write is what matters!

Cheers

Ashok

[vb86 0]

yup blue ray is an optical media and so is HD DVD ..... infact they are about to lead to a format war as to which would be the ultimate succesor to the dvd.