Zuzic said:
It won't replace hard drives. People are not going to pay more to get the same size and read/write speeds, even if holographic shows more future promise.
The only format to overtake hard drives at the moment will be Atomic holographic nanostorage devices.
The device stores data in a complete 3D format, allowing up to 1.6 Petabytes of information per cubic CM. The first sets are supposed to ship with the volume of a cubic cm or more. Meaning around 1-1.5 ml thick or writing space. Now not only is it super massive storage, nearly 1.6 MILLION gigabytes per disc, it's read and write speeds are near 400,000 times the fastest hard drives on the market. These are supposed to ship in 2012 for 750$ per drive, 1 drive could replace whole hard drive server farms which take up whole warehouses, which costs so much to run and maintence, by 1 drive.
This will finally allow drives to have complete uncompressed data, as well as the technology can be put forward into idea such as ram etc. |
I am aware - but this is the same concept in terms of technology. Holographic storage being theoretically capable of consumer use is all that matters, here.
