Many thanks to Pete from SVP Communications for giving us the heads up
on this latest news from the Maxell camp which was posted on the The
register earlier today.
"Maxell will ship its first holographic storage system late next year,
the company has pledged.
The storage specialist will initially offer a removable system based
on 300GB media and capable of transfering data at a rate of 20MBps,
Maxell said. However, the company said the technology, designed by
InPhase Technologies, is capable of achieving 1.6TB per disk - and
that's uncompressed capacity - with a 120MBps bandwidth.
InPhase was founded in December 2000 by Lucent, and has been working
on holographic storage - in which data is encoded as a 3D pattern
written and read by laser beam - ever since. In addition to the
colossal storage capacity, InPhase promises a data archive life of
over 50 years, not much different to the longevity claimed by most
optical media makers - a CD-RW for instance will typically retain data
for 20-100 years, depending on which manufacturer you speak to.
InPhase isn't the only company promoting holographic storage. Japan's
Optware - which in July won $14m in funding from four companies, one
of which was Toshiba; it also has backing from Intel Capital - is
working on a DVD-sized holographic disc is says will hold more than
1TB of data with a throughput of 1Gbps.
The format is dubbed HVD - Holographic Versatile Disc - and Optware is
already pushing a 200GB HVD-RW disc type through the HVD Alliance, an
organisation supported by Optware, Fuji Photo and half-a-dozen or so
Japanese chemicals companies. (r)"
Well,it will make Blu ray and HD DVD seem like a very small format if
what Maxell say is true. So who needs Blu ray and HD DVD when you can
have Holo technology! Of course, it won't be cheap and support may
take some time to be fully implemented. but if you ask me, Holo's the
way to go and I can't wait!
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