With
1TB 3.5-inch hard drives making the rounds these days, a little bit of the charm has worn off of
InPhase Technologies' 300GB holographic storage discs, which are now available for $180 a pop -- but only a little. The 1.5mm platters will
scale up to 1.6TB by 2010, and data transfer rates are currently at 20MBps. The storage medium promises a 50-year lifespan for data, and the Tapestry HDS-300R drive for recording the data can emulate a DVD, CD, magnetic optical or tape drive to make building software to record to the discs as easy as can be. Strangely, InPhase doesn't want this thing pegged up for a boring life of data backup: according to Liz Murphy, InPhase marketing VP, "We're not going to play in the back-up market at all." Current clients include Turner Broadcasting, the US Geological Survey and Lockheed Martin -- hopefully they all got that memo on how very un-hip data backup is. A re-writeable version is due for 2008, and while we're not sure how much the Tapestry drive is going for, we figure if you have to ask... well, you know the rest.
posted Feb 13th 2007 4:04PM
Ouch! Pricey!
Anyway, bring them up!
Yeah, and hopefully this will finally put an end to the damn stupid format war!!
Yes! Put us out of our Blu-ray/HD DVD Misery!!
I heard there was going to be another holographic format to compete with this in New Scientist.
Hopefully they can speed up that data transfer rate.
Can't wait to add some content protection to that.
-RIAA/MPAA
I don't know anout you, but I don't think I could afford very many $180 movies. No matter how great they could possibly look.
This won't end the format war, and at that price, it won't even compete with Blu-ray when 8-layered ones are launched. Unless of course, InPhase manages to release TB discs. But HVD has even more potential than InPhase discs, too bad they haven't released ones. Will colossal storage manage to launch their petabyte discs?
$180 for 300GB? Who's really complaining? This is 10x better and more reliable to store my stuff onto than a HD.
4 freaking HD in my system and I am praying that non of it gonna die on me. There's no freaking way I'm going to back it up onto a 4GB DVD. I am waiting for the blu-ray to drop but since this is coming out, guessed we all have to wait and find out the cost.
But lets talk about the cost of a Tapestry drive. I would expect it to be in the thousand dollars range.
According to the linked article, the drive itself costs $18,000.
You know, my new car cost just a touch more than that and offered a 5 year loan... Maybe Blu-Ray, HD-DVD, and other high-end optical formats (especially ones that get up this high) should adopt a similar tactic to get more market penetration... oh and to further encroach us silly consumers with more and more debt.
I wonder what the DRM have to say about this. $18,000?? So they are not going to make it for the public at the start? Seems like this is aiming towards business company while us little people continue to suffered with the prehistoric HD.
1.5mm? That's small.
*This concludes our monthly obligatory HUGE-NEW-OPTICAL-STORAGE-MEDIUM-THAT-WONT-MATTER news. We apologize for the inconvenience*
i think your more right then you know...
do people not understand that the disc is dead.
come on flash memory...
This is perfect instead of buying multiple discs for TV shows in seasons this will solve that solution and not worry if you're missing one or not.
I wish companies would quit avoiding the data backup possibilities of their large storage mediums. Just how do they expect me to backup my hundreds of Gigabytes of pirated games, movies, software and porn!?
For $180 I can get a 500GB hard drive and just pop those hot plugable drives in and out as I need (vida caddy or eSATA) to do my back ups. Not to mention that HDDs are much faster than 20MB/s. This "holographic fish" is dead before it ever can get out of the water.
You're completely missing the point. You don't go out and buy an 8GB HD with a movie on it, you buy a DVD with a movie on it. These are single-writes that won't fail like a hard disk.
Big Deal !
2D Spintronics 1.5 Petabytes and 3D Holographics 100 Petabytes around the corner.
http://colossalstorage.net
This drive is dead. There are too many competing, cheaper drives out there.
call me when the rewritable drive is under $1,000 and fits in a 5.25 drive bay.
...and discs can be had for $30 or less. (and reliability is proven)