InPhase's 1.6TB holographic optical drive
posted Jan 6th 2005 12:59PM
It's been a few months since someone announced a major breakthrough with some fantastically capacious new storage
format, the last time around was Pioneer's 500GB ultraviolet laser optical disc, and then before that those 300GB
holographic discs from Optware, now InPhase is pimping a holographic drive that uses optical discs that could
potentially store as much as 1.6TB of data (as in terabytyes, as in a crazy amount of storage space). It's just a
prototype (there is nary a word on pricing or availability), which means our wiseass plan of skipping over
HD DVD and
Blu-ray and going straight to the
1.6TB motherlode probably won't fly, but InPhase says they're using the same kind of of blue lasers developed for
Blu-ray drives and Hitachi Maxell is developing the storage medium.
[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]
one of these could backup an entire small to medium size office's complement of computers, not to mention days of hd
Wow- with something like this, I could (most likely) store all my music in a lossless format in one place! I have somewhere around 1300 purchased CDs, and while I haven't calculated exactly how much space it would take up, I seem to remember somewhere around 1-1.5TB. It's something like a month and a half's worth of music...
Atomic Holographic Optical Nanostorage INFINITE REWRITABLE Disk using 5 nm particle with 100 u in. coating = ~ 1.5 EXABYTES of data storage
1.5 Exabytes equals 1536 Petabytes or 1,572,865 Terabytes per each 100 u in. of coating
grey eminence: Dude, how much porn do you have?
Uh... Quick calculations...
Maximum Size for 1300 CDs
1 CD
74min * 60sec/min * 150KB/sec / 1024KB/MB = 650Megabytes
650MB * 1300CDs / 1024MB/GB = 825Gigabytes
Most lossless audio compression gets you about 2:1
825GB * 1/2 = 413GB
so that new Hitatchi 500GB Hard Drive should do you just fine.
Oh yeah...
1300cds * 74minutes/cd / 60minutes/hour / 24hours/day = 66Days
why are the early concepts of any optical drive seem huge? I just think making it fit into a 5.25" drive bay would be logical.
In response to Falkenad, this is a prototype -- basically demonstrating the technology. Slimming it down and into shapes that are more manageable shouldn't come into play so soon. Especially with technology that is unwieldly or not fully developed yet.
Sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet!
Nice comment Sean. Falkenad, shut up! 1.6 TB in a 5 1/4" drive is pretty good considering that Hitachi's PR does a few gigs on a 2". In agreement w/ Wreck, they wont make it tiny at first, after the prototype that demonstrates how and that it truly does work, they start making the advances in size. I highly doubt that the first CD Drive was the size they are now.
Remember the first VideoDisc (VIDEOLASER)
size of one vinyl disc!
Remember the first VideoDisc (VIDEOLASER)
size of one vinyl disc!