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-C



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except the 20 MB/s transfer speed. at that rate, it will take 4 hours to burn a complete disc, I was hoping for at least 100 MB/s but oh well]]>Jan 6th 2006 10:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/06/inphase-to-ship-300gb-holographic-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/06/inphase-to-ship-300gb-holographic-drive/


If this is targetted at industry it better have cheap discs or cheap drives because LTO3 is 400GB with 160MByte/s transfer rate and has been shipping for a long long time.]]>Jan 6th 2006 10:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/06/inphase-to-ship-300gb-holographic-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/06/inphase-to-ship-300gb-holographic-drive/Jan 6th 2006 10:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/06/inphase-to-ship-300gb-holographic-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/06/inphase-to-ship-300gb-holographic-drive/


http://www.inphase-technologies.com/technology/index.html]]>Jan 6th 2006 10:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/06/inphase-to-ship-300gb-holographic-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/06/inphase-to-ship-300gb-holographic-drive/Jan 6th 2006 10:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/06/inphase-to-ship-300gb-holographic-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/06/inphase-to-ship-300gb-holographic-drive/


I expect them to reach half-gig transfer rates within a year of being launched]]>Jan 6th 2006 10:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/06/inphase-to-ship-300gb-holographic-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/06/inphase-to-ship-300gb-holographic-drive/


Holographic technology is really the ideal sucessor to magnetic and standard optical storage technology. Magnetic disks are starting to become so 90's, and even the next generation of optical (BluRay and HDDVD) are just pushing the envelope of yesterday's optical technology.



Holographic opens the doors for MUCH higher transfer rates and near infinite storage capacity as time goes on.



I will definately be an early adopter.]]>Jan 6th 2006 10:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/06/inphase-to-ship-300gb-holographic-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/06/inphase-to-ship-300gb-holographic-drive/


LTO3 tape drives run $4k-$5K and are only SCSI or fiber optic interface, not really home friendly technology. Hopefully, they can bring these units in quite a bit cheaper and with a desktop compatible interface.]]>Jan 6th 2006 11:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/06/inphase-to-ship-300gb-holographic-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/06/inphase-to-ship-300gb-holographic-drive/Jan 6th 2006 11:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/06/inphase-to-ship-300gb-holographic-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/06/inphase-to-ship-300gb-holographic-drive/Jan 6th 2006 12:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/06/inphase-to-ship-300gb-holographic-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/06/inphase-to-ship-300gb-holographic-drive/
#13 - They have good funding and lots of brains.

#14 - They use the MO form factor so that they can use existing changers. This will still fit in a 5 1/4" drive bay.

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I know many people who are backing up onto harddrives for various reasons. A 300GB hard drive can be had for under $200 at the moment and isn't a lot bigger than the media these guys offer. And a 300GB hard drive is much much faster.



Using an external SATA connector and simply hanging a power connector out the back of my machine, I've made it possible to use drives sold for internal use as backup drives.



This is a neat technology for people that don't like hacks, but there are better ways to go in terms of performance.



I'd like to see a general standard for hot plugging drives designed for internal use into a chassis through access panels in the front so that nobody has to open a chassis to replace a hard drive. This could be done with little more than adjustment of pin lengths in the back, a slight change of connector style, and a slightly more robust case around the drive. Then, nobody would have to pay the premium for an external chassis to have portable hard drives, hard drive sales would likely increase due to the extra ease of replacing them, and hard drives could become the leading choice for backup.]]>Jan 7th 2006 12:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/06/inphase-to-ship-300gb-holographic-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/06/inphase-to-ship-300gb-holographic-drive/


You mean like SCA or even newer SAS which has been around for a decade and is used far more often than IDE drives? ]]>Jan 7th 2006 2:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/06/inphase-to-ship-300gb-holographic-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/06/inphase-to-ship-300gb-holographic-drive/


Both Blu-Ray & HD-DVD are such a waste. Though very expensive holographic storage is coming out this June, prices will drop and before you know it and.....



I just hope when it comes out, Sony or any one won't come up with a second way of storage making this one into a 'format wars'.



Another proof 95% or so of the general public won't ever waste money on HD-discs of any format.. When was the last time any one went to a movie theatre and said, "Wow! Look at that beautiful 70mm movie image!"



Most movies are still recorded on 35mm film, but 70mm offers by far, a much better image than HD-DVD does over standard DVDs. Simple basic math... Divide a 35mm frame into 720 x 480 units (pixels). 70mm film has 4 times the area of 35mm so that gives 2880 x 1920 units (pixels), much more than HD is presently offering!



Be very leary of any one who claims they see a 'big difference' in DVD formats. Rather, be wise, compare for yourself, that's the best and only way!



Our Home Theatre set up projects a 12' screen with standard DVDs and it is easily as sharp and clear as anything you see in a genuine for-real Movie theatre. The people who visit my home unanamously agree!

That's without HD!]]>Jan 7th 2006 4:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/06/inphase-to-ship-300gb-holographic-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/06/inphase-to-ship-300gb-holographic-drive/Jan 8th 2006 11:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/06/inphase-to-ship-300gb-holographic-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/06/inphase-to-ship-300gb-holographic-drive/


Actually what you did was 16 times the area, 4 wider and 4 taller. Simple basic math. If you are doubling the width and height of 35 to 70 you obviously only double the width and height of your digital res, hence 1440x960. 1080p is higher.

But yea, I don't think film goes by pixels anyways.]]>Jan 10th 2006 7:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/06/inphase-to-ship-300gb-holographic-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/06/inphase-to-ship-300gb-holographic-drive/


hey can you get me a file off the 1/6/2004 archive?

sure, i'll let you know in an hour or 2 after it restores off tape



Tapestry will be random access, just like any other spinning disk media, so you can actualy use it as a fequent-access offline storage system.



hey can you get me a file off the 1/6/2004 archive?

sure, done.



which would you rather do? ]]>Jan 11th 2006 9:28AM