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Ail said:

Khuutra said:

Ail said:
Yep because there really are movies or games out there that require more than 200Gb of space on a disc....

Fail....

Dammit, people! Thi is not about killing off blu-ray! Holographic storage technology is important because of its rewritability just as much as its storage capacity! This isn't about watching movies or playing games, it's about the technology that could replace hard drives.

 

This ain't going to replace harddrives either.

Hardrives are getting replaced by solid state drives for obvious performance and reliability issues.

 

The only application I really see for this is mass storage...

 

Solid state drives (AKA high-content flash storage) are far less reliable and far, FAR less time-proof than holographic storage. Holographic storage is a concept proven to be usable decades past write-date. Hard-drives become corrupt FAR before then, and flash memory isn't much more reliable than that.

 

And frankly, ALL the major technology manufacturers are researching Holographic storage. This isn't just something that a few small companies are researching. EVERYBODY has a stake in this stuff. GE is a huge company, and one of the most valuable American companies period. They're enormous. This isn't just "some goofy company putting some money into a random tech to try taking some marketshare". This IS very possibly the way of the future.

 

Quit with the stubborn opinions, guys, and pay attention to the facts. This is a MAJOR piece of technology they're working on, and something that could replace 50+ years of magnetic storage.