Up to 1.6-terabytes (or 1,600-gigabytes for those who can’t count) and transfer rates reaching 120 MBPS (megabytes, not bits!), Maxell’s latest holographic technology is a real breakthrough in optical media.
Made possible together with InPhase Technologies, each of these 5¼-inch disks can hold as much data as 63 DVDs. It offers a 50+ years of archive life and is expected to have the lowest cost per gigabyte compared to any other commercial removable storage in the current market.
“Combining high storage densities and fast transfer rates with durable, reliable, low cost media, Holographic technology is poised to become a compelling choice for next-generation storage and content distribution needs,” said Liz Murphy, vice president of marketing for InPhase Technologies. “Unlike other technologies that record one data bit at a time, holography allows a million bits of data to be written and read in parallel with a single flash of light. This enables transfer rates significantly higher than current optical storage devices.”
The first generation of this holographic media will come in only 300-gigabytes of storage capacity, and with a 20 MBPS transfer rate. Scheduled for release in late 2006, this will be one thing pr0n collectors optical storage fanatics will want to look out for.
[via OhGizmo!]
November 26th, 2005 at 11:27 am
Wow! That’s really good!!! This will encourage BT users to d/l more stuff now. lol.
November 26th, 2005 at 3:22 pm
wO_Ow that\’s alot of space yo, I\’ll take Three
November 26th, 2005 at 5:45 pm
I know what i’ll be asking Santa for now.
November 26th, 2005 at 8:44 pm
hoo. lee. crap.
I remember hearing about this a few weeks back, but damn it’ll come out next year??? this is a dream!!
November 26th, 2005 at 11:38 pm
makes blue ray obsolete before its release?
November 26th, 2005 at 11:54 pm
I really hope they will release HDD that will store 1TB. Id buy it if it was 400$.
November 27th, 2005 at 2:38 am
damn, i was just about to invent one of these. back to the drawing board eh
November 27th, 2005 at 6:51 am
Can I sue Maxell for taking MY idea?
November 27th, 2005 at 10:31 am
wow.. my god. with thaqt transfer rate if they have a re-writeable then thats your HD right there
November 27th, 2005 at 11:36 am
HD’s are better, it will probbably cost the equivalent of a cuple of 500GB SATA’s
(they are around $300CND) i’ve got a 6TB raid sitting right beside me..
November 27th, 2005 at 12:56 pm
” i’ve got a 6TB raid sitting right beside me..”
Oh my… ^^
November 28th, 2005 at 1:30 am
Hey thats a real deal fellas
But it should be made available asap
just dreaming can go to any extent w/o ne actual product to buy
it makes no difference
November 28th, 2005 at 8:10 am
6tb wow thats huge does that make up for a small D I C
November 28th, 2005 at 5:38 pm
I heard something similar to this six years ago (using flourescent media), so I thought this was a hoax – but I’ve seen the press releases. It looks genuine. I’m not sure if it’s a standalone drive, or just because it’s the prototype, but the drive looks massive.
I just wonder what you would actually do with 1.6TB of disc space? Surely there isn’t that much porn on the interweb?
November 29th, 2005 at 1:25 am
that says lowest cost per gig, but with 1600 how much are these gona cost, at 20p per gig thats still like £320.00 (GBP), thats a lot of money
November 29th, 2005 at 6:22 am
To answer Joe – DVD’s work out at about 8p/Gig from the high street, so that’s knocked £192 off the cost already.
Time to find the camcorder and inflate the missus….
November 29th, 2005 at 3:09 pm
[[[ Quote From kyle
[[[ November 27th, 2005 at 6:51 am
[[[ Can I sue Maxell for taking MY idea?
You can only sue if it has the same name. Lol. You can't sue someone for having the same/similar idea as you.
November 30th, 2005 at 3:57 am
WOW!!! with one of these I’ll have enough space for my kids chat log’s!!!
November 30th, 2005 at 5:41 am
“WOW!!! with one of these I’ll have enough space for my kids chat log’s!!! ”
The parents can look at the chat logs, just stay away from my pron!
November 30th, 2005 at 7:55 pm
I thought of this technology in 1986 when I was 10 years old, playing with Mainframe’s computer (G.I. Joe computer specialist). All of my adventures were set in the future so I thought a 5 1/4″ floppy was kind of ridiculous. I came up with the idea of a holographic disc that was read by a free-floating, variable power laser that would read data in different layers depending on how much juice was applied. Damn… I was a smart kid…
December 1st, 2005 at 3:09 am
Think about this… Your current HD is 72,000 to 100,000 rpm. If you use this Maxwell Technology as your HD, your transfer rates would be blazing fast meaning your computer would be faster! Think about what slows down your computer the most? THE DAMN HARD DRIVE! If we start using these are HD’s, CPU Ghz wouldn’t be soo hot anymore, because your computer would ’seem’ like it’s running at almost 4Ghz or even faster (even though it’s a 2.8Ghz). Get it? Your HD Slows down everything!
December 1st, 2005 at 3:30 am
It’s not that impressive, just technology improving as we go along…
I was part of a r&d team in the late 90’s that developed a Digital Optical Tape Drive able to hold 7.4 TBi in a DLT form factor with 50 MB/sec transfer rates.
We even did a paper for IEEE/Nasa on it.
December 1st, 2005 at 11:01 am
W O W
You could kill the President with that much information…
But seriously 1.6 T isnt even a fraction of the amount of porn on teh net. PLUS this new tech will just make more avaiable. PS: who hasnt had the MSD idea b4? I was thinking about making a disc that stores 1000 gigs of data for the longest time, so you all need to stop crying and start investing!
(mass storage disc) MSD 4 life !!!!!!!
December 1st, 2005 at 3:33 pm
hmmm quite the large amount of space.
i imagine the disk drive would be quite the expensive.
anyway Shankdizzle, current hd’s actually only run at 7200 or 10000rpm.
Also having a faster optical disk would not improve the speed of your cpu. It would only be faster at reading disks so load times would be faster and copying files to the disk.
December 2nd, 2005 at 9:11 am
The MSD Revolution Has Begun… Who Will Fufil The Prophecy?
December 4th, 2005 at 2:08 am
I’m still holding on to my hdd. access time man, access time…
December 21st, 2005 at 1:46 am
I can’t wait till I get this baby in my hands.
December 21st, 2005 at 8:18 am
63 dvds, how much willl this cost.
December 21st, 2005 at 8:19 am
1tb hdd hmmm
January 3rd, 2006 at 12:26 pm
OK there is still widespread confusion on this. To clear things up, a megabyte does not equal 1024 kilobytes. There is a different name for that, the Mebibyte. Observe:
1 Terabyte = 1,000,000,000,000 bytes.
1 Tebibyte = 1,099,511,627,776 bytes
So 1.6 Terabytes = 1,600,000,000,000 bytes or 1600 Gigabytes.
It depends whether you use powers of 10 or powers of 2 to calculate a “megabyte”.
Eg.
10 to the power of 3 = 1000 (a kilobyte)
2 to the power of 10 = 1024 (a kibibyte)
Read about it at wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MegaByte
Generally for new hard drives, a megabyte = 1000 KB, whereas for RAM, a megabyte = 1024 KB
January 3rd, 2006 at 10:37 pm
Thank you for clearing things up, ME.
May 3rd, 2006 at 5:29 pm
As for access times, i imagine it would be pretty fast, it does say it can do 1,000,000 bits in a flash of light, so imagine how many flashes it would take to write your 6tb raid…. lets hope you dont suffer from epillepsy!!!
MEH! But if you think about it, fiberoptics flash so fast we cant see them, so think about the “fast flashy little read/write” head flashing up all that flashy data, and it’d be done quick as a flash!
*Flash*
JG
May 25th, 2008 at 2:41 am
Check this out! Looks alike holography !!!
http://www.illusionscreen.com