New 1.6 Terrabyte media and drive released!!!!

[mountain_rage]

Thats right baby, if you were anticipating the blueray discs your in for a real treat. Maxell has just release a holographic memory drive. These drives can hold an extreamly large amount of information and fetch at a blazing speed, 120MB/s that is. Check out the press release.

http://www.maxell-usa.com/Content/Pages/Page.asp?Section=pressreleases&department=maxellusa_pr&Line=datapr&Open=datapr41

[Krell]

Holographic recording technology utilizes intersecting signal and reference laser beams to store data in a number of 3D hologram images capable of saving hundreds of data pages in a single location. One 5¼ inch-diameter optical disc can store up to 150 million pages - more than 63 times the capacity of DVD. Also, with holographic recording, a multiple of form factors, such as discs, cards, etc., and laser wavelengths (red, green, and blue) can be used.


Boo yeah!


What price do you think?




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[mountain_rage]

Um im guessing 2 000$ to 20 000$ its hard to say. Im guessing its currently for commercial use. It really suprised me to see it released, I thought it was still in the development stage. They had problems properly aligning the lazer to gather the information.

If you want a better understanding of how the technology works just check on this link.

http://computer.howstuffworks.com/holographic-memory.htm

[Lord_of_the_Dense]

I'm sure just one would suit me fine for thenext 5 or so years.

[peacock70]

Holy cow, that's awesome!!!

[boogiedan]

Awsome post's is all i can say!

wot a hard-on!!

massive space 2 store all

[Miniver]

"Finally, the media is expected to have the lowest cost per gigabyte of any commercial quality removable storage. "

[black_magiic]

I can't wait for this :)