Cheap Holographic Storage To Come Home
Ewigen Zyniker, Oct 11, 2008 1107 hrs IST
Will hold from 300 GB to 1 TB
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Ewigen Zyniker, Oct 11, 2008 1107 hrs IST
Will hold from 300 GB to 1 TB
Researchers at GE Global Research are working on a new holographic storage medium that will eventually store up to a terabyte of your pirated HD movies on a disk that will be almost indistinguishable from any old DVD. In fact, the player that will read this disk will still read CDs and DVDs, quaint though they will be in the future.
This isn't the first holographic storage system that'll hit us, though. Next year, InPhase will bring us 300GB disks that will cost $180 (Rs 8,460) apiece, and will be read by a machine that will cost $18,000 (Rs 84,600). GE hopes to make its offering less shockingly priced.
However, in the day of the cheap terabyte hard drive, why must we worry about optical media? If you're the proud owner of a portable hard drive, ask yourself: when was the last time you burned a DVD?
Source: Technology Review
Imagine if u lose 300GB all at once....blu-ray is good enough..
by Ani, Bangalore, on Oct 11, 2008 12:00 PM, Report abuse Reply
So many of my ''pirated' HD movies at the mercy of a single scratch....no thx ill stick to portable hdd's...
by Ani, Bangalore, on Oct 11, 2008 11:58 AM, Report abuse Reply
See this in quotes "$18,000 (Rs 84,600)" Don't you think you missed a zero I mean 8,46,000
by einstein, hyderabad, on Oct 11, 2008 08:43 PM, Report abuse Reply