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Caddies suck.

Otherwise looks pretty cool.]]>Dec 19th 2005 1:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/04/18/inphase-announces-300gb-holographic-discs/http://www.engadget.com/2005/04/18/inphase-announces-300gb-holographic-discs/Dec 19th 2005 1:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/04/18/inphase-announces-300gb-holographic-discs/http://www.engadget.com/2005/04/18/inphase-announces-300gb-holographic-discs/
If this is as good as they say at a decent price... OMFG TEH FUTURE HAS ARRIVED!

No really... but damn thats awesome]]>Dec 19th 2005 1:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/04/18/inphase-announces-300gb-holographic-discs/http://www.engadget.com/2005/04/18/inphase-announces-300gb-holographic-discs/Dec 19th 2005 1:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/04/18/inphase-announces-300gb-holographic-discs/http://www.engadget.com/2005/04/18/inphase-announces-300gb-holographic-discs/Dec 19th 2005 1:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/04/18/inphase-announces-300gb-holographic-discs/http://www.engadget.com/2005/04/18/inphase-announces-300gb-holographic-discs/Dec 19th 2005 1:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/04/18/inphase-announces-300gb-holographic-discs/http://www.engadget.com/2005/04/18/inphase-announces-300gb-holographic-discs/Dec 19th 2005 1:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/04/18/inphase-announces-300gb-holographic-discs/http://www.engadget.com/2005/04/18/inphase-announces-300gb-holographic-discs/Dec 19th 2005 1:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/04/18/inphase-announces-300gb-holographic-discs/http://www.engadget.com/2005/04/18/inphase-announces-300gb-holographic-discs/Dec 19th 2005 1:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/04/18/inphase-announces-300gb-holographic-discs/http://www.engadget.com/2005/04/18/inphase-announces-300gb-holographic-discs/Dec 19th 2005 1:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/04/18/inphase-announces-300gb-holographic-discs/http://www.engadget.com/2005/04/18/inphase-announces-300gb-holographic-discs/Badass none the less if its as good as they say...
Such incredible storage capacity... if they could can make the plastic-polymeur they use to be rewritable it would be truly a perfect dream come true... nearly... as long as there isnt a format war, just one ... dont want some stupid beta/vhs shit to go down]]>Dec 19th 2005 1:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/04/18/inphase-announces-300gb-holographic-discs/http://www.engadget.com/2005/04/18/inphase-announces-300gb-holographic-discs/Dec 19th 2005 1:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/04/18/inphase-announces-300gb-holographic-discs/http://www.engadget.com/2005/04/18/inphase-announces-300gb-holographic-discs/
With a 1TB disk, the framework for the books and pages stored on the disk would be enormous. Imagine if you store 1TB's worth of small txt files (don't know why you'd do this), a major portion of the disk would have to be allocated for the locations of each file.

OK, that said, what about errors. Just a single error would ruin a 1TB disk (just like a single writing error ruins a CD or DVD). I would imagine that a 1TB disk would not be cheap. So, before this technology becomes successful, it has to be completely fool-proof, scratch-proof, write-proof, tested and true. I would be surprised if it has any success by 2009.]]>Dec 19th 2005 1:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/04/18/inphase-announces-300gb-holographic-discs/http://www.engadget.com/2005/04/18/inphase-announces-300gb-holographic-discs/Dec 19th 2005 1:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/04/18/inphase-announces-300gb-holographic-discs/http://www.engadget.com/2005/04/18/inphase-announces-300gb-holographic-discs/http://www.inphase-tech.com/media/inphase_promo.mov
take a look at the above vid, if it's all they say it is... wow.
One of the storage slides looks like the ones in Minority Report, I love that movie.]]>Dec 19th 2005 1:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/04/18/inphase-announces-300gb-holographic-discs/http://www.engadget.com/2005/04/18/inphase-announces-300gb-holographic-discs/Dec 19th 2005 1:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/04/18/inphase-announces-300gb-holographic-discs/http://www.engadget.com/2005/04/18/inphase-announces-300gb-holographic-discs/Dec 19th 2005 1:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/04/18/inphase-announces-300gb-holographic-discs/http://www.engadget.com/2005/04/18/inphase-announces-300gb-holographic-discs/Dec 19th 2005 1:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/04/18/inphase-announces-300gb-holographic-discs/http://www.engadget.com/2005/04/18/inphase-announces-300gb-holographic-discs/
Yeah, I remeember it! Does that make me way too old, too? =(]]>Dec 19th 2005 1:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/04/18/inphase-announces-300gb-holographic-discs/http://www.engadget.com/2005/04/18/inphase-announces-300gb-holographic-discs/Dec 19th 2005 1:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/04/18/inphase-announces-300gb-holographic-discs/http://www.engadget.com/2005/04/18/inphase-announces-300gb-holographic-discs/Having a circular disc is just a convenience to put new area's under the writing laser's optimal path.
A cube or a plastic card like in the video would be a much better media, the laser could start "writing" layers at the bottom and the cube or laser could be pushed up.
Scratches would indeed not be a problem because your data is embedded inside the object, if the writers leaves a little safety area you could always repolish the outside and strip away a fine layer.
]]>Dec 19th 2005 1:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/04/18/inphase-announces-300gb-holographic-discs/http://www.engadget.com/2005/04/18/inphase-announces-300gb-holographic-discs/It's just a matter of time to make it R/W
However R/W material is always less durable in time and will cost more, and this thing has the potential to evolve to a "write to anything" device.
Don't those old glasses away, we can use them for datastorage ...
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On that basis I believe "Craig's" geek level is insufficient for posting here. All in favor say "Live long and prosper"

As for the topic at hand: 300GB is good but TRANSFER SPEED!! That's what it's all about.]]>Dec 19th 2005 1:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/04/18/inphase-announces-300gb-holographic-discs/http://www.engadget.com/2005/04/18/inphase-announces-300gb-holographic-discs/
why are people so enamored with cheap, scratchable disks anyhow? the cool rainbow-ey color? sheesh...]]>Dec 19th 2005 1:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/04/18/inphase-announces-300gb-holographic-discs/http://www.engadget.com/2005/04/18/inphase-announces-300gb-holographic-discs/Dec 19th 2005 1:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/04/18/inphase-announces-300gb-holographic-discs/http://www.engadget.com/2005/04/18/inphase-announces-300gb-holographic-discs/Dec 19th 2005 1:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/04/18/inphase-announces-300gb-holographic-discs/http://www.engadget.com/2005/04/18/inphase-announces-300gb-holographic-discs/
My thoughts: As soon as they figure out RW, which will be as soon as they stop focusing on archival, CDs and all kinds of DVDs are dead, it's just a matter of when. Seriously, imagine this. We could get rid of hard drives entirely - just have driveless computers with one of these readers in them that boot from chips, then any user can slide in a 300gb or maybe even bigger disk and have all their data right there. Think USB drive convenience taken to an entirely new level.
]]>Dec 19th 2005 1:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/04/18/inphase-announces-300gb-holographic-discs/http://www.engadget.com/2005/04/18/inphase-announces-300gb-holographic-discs/Dec 19th 2005 1:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/04/18/inphase-announces-300gb-holographic-discs/http://www.engadget.com/2005/04/18/inphase-announces-300gb-holographic-discs/Personally, I can't see this technology used for frequent backups unless the price of the media is exceptionally low. However, if the disks are durable and last longer than the various CD-based technologies (not hard to do), it would be excellent for archival purposes. Think large businesses and providers of online text/audio/video content.]]>Dec 19th 2005 1:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/04/18/inphase-announces-300gb-holographic-discs/http://www.engadget.com/2005/04/18/inphase-announces-300gb-holographic-discs/
This is most likely going to be positioned to replace or supplement systems such as magneto-optical (MO) disks that people have been using as an archival medium for years. (We have 5GB optical platters which are at least seven years old now; 2.6GB and 1.3GB platters dating back almost 15 years.)

As this product stands now it is totally viable; new legal requirements are forcing companies to do long-term storage of all manners of documents (say, financial reports) and communications (IM, email, even voice). Rewritability is actually a detriment - you want the record to be permanent, or at least immutable.

Magneto-optical (including the new 30GB platter systems) are designed to be WORM, but appendable . Sort of like multi-session CDR or DVD-R, but more streamlined. It works surprisingly well. Typically you use an external program to track the metadata (a "hierarchical storage manager") on a collection of perhaps thousands of platters. I can see the same paradigm being applied to these holographic platters, since it's solving basically the same problem.

This is not really intended to replace hard drives as the company stated; we have "near-line" (S)ATA disk arrays for large scale rewritable storage, and as you probably know, large ATA disks are very cheap.

Most of these archival optical products are priced outside the reach of the typical consumer since it is built to different standards of hardware robustness and software flexibility; however there's no reason a reduced-cost consumer version could not be made as well.

But don't expect to to work just like the pro gear - the MO drives I have in service now cost almost $6000 each when new, but that was ten years and many thousands of load/unload cycles ago, and they are still going strong. That's the sort of reliability that InPhase needs to match to make it in this market. A typical consumer DVD-RW drive, for example, may hold the same amount of data, and may very well be faster, but at $75 or so with $2 media, it isn't going to keep running around the clock for years at a time.]]>Dec 19th 2005 1:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/04/18/inphase-announces-300gb-holographic-discs/http://www.engadget.com/2005/04/18/inphase-announces-300gb-holographic-discs/
Imagine what you could buy at a flea market if the media is cheap!]]>Dec 19th 2005 1:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/04/18/inphase-announces-300gb-holographic-discs/http://www.engadget.com/2005/04/18/inphase-announces-300gb-holographic-discs/Dec 19th 2005 1:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/04/18/inphase-announces-300gb-holographic-discs/http://www.engadget.com/2005/04/18/inphase-announces-300gb-holographic-discs/
#16; AHAHHAHAHAHHAH I'm not sure if anyone else remembers that; that was great, thanks for bringing back mr. gates genius!!!


(for those who dont no at one point Mr Gates himself said "640k of memory should be enough that anyone ever needs"
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Also, I'm wondering what the holographic media will cost. Guess we'll find out later.

Other than that, Looks cool.]]>Dec 19th 2005 1:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/04/18/inphase-announces-300gb-holographic-discs/http://www.engadget.com/2005/04/18/inphase-announces-300gb-holographic-discs/Jan 6th 2006 4:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/04/18/inphase-announces-300gb-holographic-discs/http://www.engadget.com/2005/04/18/inphase-announces-300gb-holographic-discs/


This is, according to many (including howstuffworks), just the beginning. I am definitely getting one regardless of price.]]>Jan 7th 2006 5:48AM