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Otherwise, pass]]>Apr 27th 2009 3:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/27/ge-microholographic-storage-promises-cheap-500gb-discs-blu-ray/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/27/ge-microholographic-storage-promises-cheap-500gb-discs-blu-ray/GE not GM
GE (general electric) doesn't make cars, they make toasters and nuclear reactors.
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I picture using these disks as storage for media; all my music collection on one disk, throw in another right after to back it up. Never lose anything, and a 0.5TB storage media is only an eject button away.

Article says it won't e available for consumers though >:0]]>Apr 27th 2009 3:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/27/ge-microholographic-storage-promises-cheap-500gb-discs-blu-ray/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/27/ge-microholographic-storage-promises-cheap-500gb-discs-blu-ray/Apr 27th 2009 3:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/27/ge-microholographic-storage-promises-cheap-500gb-discs-blu-ray/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/27/ge-microholographic-storage-promises-cheap-500gb-discs-blu-ray/Apr 27th 2009 3:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/27/ge-microholographic-storage-promises-cheap-500gb-discs-blu-ray/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/27/ge-microholographic-storage-promises-cheap-500gb-discs-blu-ray/Apr 27th 2009 3:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/27/ge-microholographic-storage-promises-cheap-500gb-discs-blu-ray/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/27/ge-microholographic-storage-promises-cheap-500gb-discs-blu-ray/Apr 27th 2009 3:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/27/ge-microholographic-storage-promises-cheap-500gb-discs-blu-ray/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/27/ge-microholographic-storage-promises-cheap-500gb-discs-blu-ray/Apr 27th 2009 3:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/27/ge-microholographic-storage-promises-cheap-500gb-discs-blu-ray/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/27/ge-microholographic-storage-promises-cheap-500gb-discs-blu-ray/Apr 27th 2009 3:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/27/ge-microholographic-storage-promises-cheap-500gb-discs-blu-ray/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/27/ge-microholographic-storage-promises-cheap-500gb-discs-blu-ray/]]>Apr 27th 2009 3:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/27/ge-microholographic-storage-promises-cheap-500gb-discs-blu-ray/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/27/ge-microholographic-storage-promises-cheap-500gb-discs-blu-ray/Apr 27th 2009 3:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/27/ge-microholographic-storage-promises-cheap-500gb-discs-blu-ray/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/27/ge-microholographic-storage-promises-cheap-500gb-discs-blu-ray/Apr 27th 2009 10:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/27/ge-microholographic-storage-promises-cheap-500gb-discs-blu-ray/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/27/ge-microholographic-storage-promises-cheap-500gb-discs-blu-ray/Apr 27th 2009 10:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/27/ge-microholographic-storage-promises-cheap-500gb-discs-blu-ray/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/27/ge-microholographic-storage-promises-cheap-500gb-discs-blu-ray/Apr 27th 2009 3:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/27/ge-microholographic-storage-promises-cheap-500gb-discs-blu-ray/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/27/ge-microholographic-storage-promises-cheap-500gb-discs-blu-ray/Apr 27th 2009 3:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/27/ge-microholographic-storage-promises-cheap-500gb-discs-blu-ray/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/27/ge-microholographic-storage-promises-cheap-500gb-discs-blu-ray/
The researchers who worked on this since 2003 must be excited, but as our lovable analysts like to say:
“It’s always well to remember that the most important technical specification in any storage device, however impressive the science behind it, is price,” said James N. Porter, an independent analyst of the storage market."
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To me it looks like they're asking you to pay more for the same media. While I see progress in the cost per gb, I don't see progress in cost per media unit.]]>Apr 27th 2009 4:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/27/ge-microholographic-storage-promises-cheap-500gb-discs-blu-ray/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/27/ge-microholographic-storage-promises-cheap-500gb-discs-blu-ray/

as long as blu-rays cost $1 per GB nobody will buy them for data storage. $0.1 per GB is more interesting as it kind of rivals external hard drives, but it probably won't be rewritable at that cost and almost certainly not as reliable.]]>Apr 27th 2009 4:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/27/ge-microholographic-storage-promises-cheap-500gb-discs-blu-ray/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/27/ge-microholographic-storage-promises-cheap-500gb-discs-blu-ray/
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817607009
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=Property&Subcategory=71&Description=&Type=&N=2000100071&srchInDesc=&MinPrice=&MaxPrice=&PropertyCodeValue=875:22109&PropertyCodeValue=875:23456
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I really can't see this thing taking off at higher price than harddrives.]]>Apr 27th 2009 6:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/27/ge-microholographic-storage-promises-cheap-500gb-discs-blu-ray/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/27/ge-microholographic-storage-promises-cheap-500gb-discs-blu-ray/Apr 27th 2009 9:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/27/ge-microholographic-storage-promises-cheap-500gb-discs-blu-ray/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/27/ge-microholographic-storage-promises-cheap-500gb-discs-blu-ray/]]>Apr 28th 2009 1:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/27/ge-microholographic-storage-promises-cheap-500gb-discs-blu-ray/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/27/ge-microholographic-storage-promises-cheap-500gb-discs-blu-ray/
i wonder how long it would take to burn 500GB.]]>Apr 29th 2009 1:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/27/ge-microholographic-storage-promises-cheap-500gb-discs-blu-ray/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/27/ge-microholographic-storage-promises-cheap-500gb-discs-blu-ray/Apr 27th 2009 4:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/27/ge-microholographic-storage-promises-cheap-500gb-discs-blu-ray/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/27/ge-microholographic-storage-promises-cheap-500gb-discs-blu-ray/Apr 27th 2009 10:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/27/ge-microholographic-storage-promises-cheap-500gb-discs-blu-ray/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/27/ge-microholographic-storage-promises-cheap-500gb-discs-blu-ray/Apr 27th 2009 4:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/27/ge-microholographic-storage-promises-cheap-500gb-discs-blu-ray/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/27/ge-microholographic-storage-promises-cheap-500gb-discs-blu-ray/
http://www.pioneer.eu/eur/content/press/news/500GB_Bluray.html

http://www.macworld.com/article/44876/2005/05/tdk.html

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Unless the ISPs come along and pull the rug out from under us.]]>Apr 27th 2009 7:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/27/ge-microholographic-storage-promises-cheap-500gb-discs-blu-ray/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/27/ge-microholographic-storage-promises-cheap-500gb-discs-blu-ray/Apr 27th 2009 9:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/27/ge-microholographic-storage-promises-cheap-500gb-discs-blu-ray/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/27/ge-microholographic-storage-promises-cheap-500gb-discs-blu-ray/
Really? You can't wait two freaking years for a disc that holds 20 times what a single layer BD-R holds? Yeesh.]]>Apr 27th 2009 8:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/27/ge-microholographic-storage-promises-cheap-500gb-discs-blu-ray/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/27/ge-microholographic-storage-promises-cheap-500gb-discs-blu-ray/Apr 27th 2009 8:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/27/ge-microholographic-storage-promises-cheap-500gb-discs-blu-ray/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/27/ge-microholographic-storage-promises-cheap-500gb-discs-blu-ray/Apr 27th 2009 8:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/27/ge-microholographic-storage-promises-cheap-500gb-discs-blu-ray/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/27/ge-microholographic-storage-promises-cheap-500gb-discs-blu-ray/Apr 27th 2009 10:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/27/ge-microholographic-storage-promises-cheap-500gb-discs-blu-ray/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/27/ge-microholographic-storage-promises-cheap-500gb-discs-blu-ray/
...say what? Are they threatening that this disk is going to wipe out my movie collection? ]]>Apr 27th 2009 5:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/27/ge-microholographic-storage-promises-cheap-500gb-discs-blu-ray/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/27/ge-microholographic-storage-promises-cheap-500gb-discs-blu-ray/
According to wikipedia (and link to press release in December 2008), PIONEER has developed 16-layer 400GB Blu-ray discs than can be read in *EXISTING PLAYERS* on the market and eventually burned on *existing* writers -- that are to be released at some point in 2009.

Besides the pioneer 400GB, many other companies have quad-layer 100GB (per side) Blu-ray discs in the works that work with current hardware. So if they can get these many-layer BD discs production soon and particularly the writable version, then holographic discs will have to either offer some incredible read/write speed or are going to have to greatly increase that storage capacity to be worth the costly hardware]]>Apr 27th 2009 7:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/27/ge-microholographic-storage-promises-cheap-500gb-discs-blu-ray/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/27/ge-microholographic-storage-promises-cheap-500gb-discs-blu-ray/
I understand why they'd do this. Government/film/medical fields are usually the guinea pigs for technologies that may eventually be adapted for standard consumer use.

If time/cost/efficiency changes over the next two years, it won't even make it to the guinea pig stage.

My question is how long will the discs last (durability/lifespan)? If they are more archival (say 100+ years), then it'd be very well worth it current optical or magnetic formats.]]>Apr 28th 2009 6:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/27/ge-microholographic-storage-promises-cheap-500gb-discs-blu-ray/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/27/ge-microholographic-storage-promises-cheap-500gb-discs-blu-ray/I havent used a cd/dvd for storage or transferring in years, pretty much since 1gb flash drives became so cheap. I bought 5 of them for 15bucks in a value pack.

So what am I missing?]]>Apr 28th 2009 8:31PM