The future is here—sort of. InPhase today announced that it has begun bulk shipping its 300GB holographic storage disks. The platters are 1.5-millimeters thick and cost $180 each. That is on top of the initial $18,000 investment for the Tapestry HDS-300R drive. InPhase says that the drives should expand to capacities of 1.6TB by 2010.
Sounds fancy right? Well you should carefully consider this next part. The platters have a 50-year lifespan and they access at just 20MBps. This is in contrast to readily available SATA drives that access at 150MBps. Also, the rewritable version won’t be available until sometime next year.
InPhase begins shipping holographic storage [Register]
Oh remember how quickly hard drives grew in size in the past decade. From 1 mb standard to a 1 tb standard.
Sounds cool, but it isn’t too big of a step foward, still encoding data in spinning disks. Maybe a holographic flash drive will bring us into the next “age of data.”
InPhase good luck with your product.
Your product shipment quells the years of noise I have had to endure as a data storage pioneer on the same path as yourself.
Now the millions of nay sayers about holographic storage will learn that true technologist will not be keep from reaching their goals… no matter what challenges await them.
I am proud of you and your accomplishment.
InPhase will go down in the history books as the Wright Brothers of Holographic Storage.
Congratulations Inphase to your team of excellent entrependeurs !
Best Regards,
Michael E. Thomas
CEO/Chairman/President
Colossal Storage Corp.
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