InPhase to finally ship Tapestry 300r holographic storage solution in May
By Darren Murph 
posted April 27th 2008 7:06AM
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*sigh... guess I'm going to have to buy the 'White album' again.
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will it blend???is it made by apple? microsoft?hmmmmmm....thes are all question we have
will it blend???is it made by apple? microsoft?hmmmmmm....thes are all question we have
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And while everyone pisses and moans about the capacity, cost, format wars, etc...
Please remember this product is designed for LONG TERM ARCHIVAL STORAGE. No, not your anime-gadget-tentacle-porn archive, think critical data backups for businesses. At this point in time, InPhase's product is not aimed for consumer purposes, so can we please shut the hell up about its cost and ugly design?
If what they say about the media's durability is true, this will be a fantastic product for archivists.
Your avatar....
...disturbs me.
Let me know when it's $1,800.... no, make that $180.
Mmmmm. Long-term archival.
happy_penguin said it all. $180 or less.
However, I am accepting review units and discs (don't expect them back). Thank you.
The unit looks like it could blow a fuse just starting up but we'll see where this goes.
Unrelated for the marketing folks:
Tapestry would not be the first name I would use to describe a revolutionary holographic storage archival system, but whatever. It conjures up imagery of traditionalness rather than revolutionary-ness.
DOH! Meant to say "I'm not your guy, fwend!"
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The unique thing about holographic storage is that a property of holograms in general is the ability to retain full information about the data that makes up the hologram even if part of it is damaged. For example, if you cut a hologram in half you still see the full image just a little blurrier. Along with error correction, this format will likely be more resiliant than other media types. But who knows whether the reader device will stay consistent and available year in the future.
$18,000?my dear pocket suddenly felt hollow and out of phase...
Ok with a possible data life time of over 800 years, and the fact that soon you will be able to store 1 TB per cm on a disc (or cube some day) this tech will be the corner stone of all archiving media out there
havent tv studios been using these for a while now?
I was hoping this would do away with flat spinning media, too bad it wasn't a cube or some other shape.
Thats it? LTO4 has this technology beat quite handily, and the WORM tapes are good for 30+ years.
18k for a single 300r drive vs 4k for an LTO4 drive.
180 for 300gb media vs 80 for 800/1600 media
20mb/s vs 150+mb/s
If anything these guys should get with the LTO consortium and help them with LTO5/6/7 etc.
Even if these have been tested and the media would last decades or whatever, the biggest threat to data-life is that the drive itself would fail and if the business has gone under, buying a new drive may not be an option.
Storing your data on something that requires a device that may not sell in large volume is a really bad idea.
LTO-4 drives cost $3000 USD, while 800GB tapes cost < $100 USD. Random access on the order of a minute though.
ZipDrive 2.0
> I'm not sure what the retention time of a hard drive is,
> but it can't be far off 50 years when used for archive.
Good luck even connecting a 20 year old hard drive to today's PC, let alone today's hard drive to a PC in 2058
18k? Princess Leia must have hocked Padme's jewelery.
Obiwan, save my credit rating!
$18K for a 300GB solution is a joke. I don't care what kind of magic fairy dust it uses.
Tape, crusty old tape drives are already pimping the TBs for a fraction of the cost. Seek times suck of course and you need to load more than one tape into the device, but that's not the point of a backup. The point is: it works and it's way cheaper than this thing.
See: Sony LIB162A4BB.
agreed, but there is a market that wants their back-ups available for QUICK random access rather than the occasional dust-off and insert. This product caters to these markets.
For a gadget blog you guys are suprisingly negative about this. It's new tech; of course its expensive. No... It's NOT meant for you. Get over it.
But hey, ill send a memo out to all of the major corporations working on new disk technology, "people are fine w/ DVDs stop working on new technology." Because 300 GB on a disk is just soooo unnecessary.
People stop being hostile to one another.
This is a for people who have money spend and want a solution that's better than tape drives. But tape drives are 1/5 the price you say? This allows random access, tapes are sequential only.
Hard drives are not a good backup solution, because the hard drives begin to fail if they are not used every two years (I think the bearings and the motor seizes).
Aaron