Most PC users don't need bigger drives? Oh boy, for someone that claims to work in the software industry, that sure is a foolish statement. I seem to recall someone making a similar statement back in the '80s. Something about 640KB being enough for anybody, right?
Look how wrong he was. Sure, maybe people don't need that much space right now, but give them five or ten years and 5TB drives will be commonplace in store-bought PCs.
As for quicker starts... The majority of the reason programs/OS's don't start faster than they do is due to memory restrictions - not having enough memory, or not having memory able to operate quickly enough. Almost nothing to do with access times and completely to do with bandwidth and total amounts of memory. Yeah, obviously, access time affects it, but any "access time" less than a second-long frankly, to the human, is nearly "instant" anyways.
Either way, I'm absolutely not "backing down", and I resent you trying to claim that I am. I never stated that holographic storage was going to be taking over anytime in the near future in the first place. Such a drastically different technology will take quite some time to present itself in a commercially viable manner. Flash memory is only starting to present itself as a viable successor after how many years of the technology being around? Flash has been used for decades. Holographic storage is, yes, far from commercial usability right now. Doesn't mean it's not the future.
And, I'll say it again. There are ways to do holographic storage without having moving lasers. Different types of lasers can do wonderful things.
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