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Search Tech-Forums - link takes you to our Forum's search page. Note: The following is only a text archive! To view the actual forum discussion, please visit our website at http://www.tech-forums.net Pages:1 Holographic Storage(Click here to view the original thread with full colors/images)Posted by: twopointshotdr has anyone heard of this... i've been following this companies progress with this technology for the past year and a half or so, and they've finally done it. On the site they show off their 1st type of device. theres supposed to be a 2nd type which i think like DOUBLES or TRIPLES storage capacity of this current one.... just check out the articles and what not...its pretty dam sweet! [url]http://www.inphase-technologies.com/[/url] Posted by: twopointshotdr heres a cool article.... [url]http://www.inphase-technologies.com/news/halfterabit03272006.html[/url] Posted by: Ste So how much longer until I get my Holodeck? Posted by: hillbillybob that would be awesome!!!!!! (the holodeck) Posted by: TheEnd187 hmm anyone hear of those 300tb discs? some hardvard scientists are developing them Posted by: twopointshotdr the technology here is awesome.... but yea...i mean...do you think they are gonna have them out in stores like next year? no...haha. but the point is the technology is there. think of this....large storage networks....SANS replaced, loud fans...bulky excessive equipment replaced with monster holo disks with amazing archival lengths! it all just makes you kinda go...HMMMMMM..... Posted by: Law I remember reading about the cons, because the material are hard to manufacture it would be to expensive at the moment. Posted by: Ash Ketchum My Pokédex can store more data than that heap of junk. Posted by: twopointshotdr haha omg...thats the goofiest thing i've heard!!! hahaha.... Posted by: b0dge [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Law [/i] [B]I remember reading about the cons, because the material are hard to manufacture it would be to expensive at the moment. [/B][/QUOTE] Yeah, but that's always been the case, 8-track, cassettes, cd's, dvd's, LCD screens, CPU's (think of how difficult and expensive it was two years ago to manufacture a CPU using the 120nm process, then 90, and how prices steadily fall until they stop making them, when they either plummet, or hit the roof.) I'm not saying this particular peice of technology will make it, and I'm not saying it won't, all I'm saying is if the technology is useful to a mass market, then more R&D will go into it, and it will become easier and less expensive to manufacture, and so will become cheaper over time. Technology relies on companies throwing huge amounts of money at a new product or process and then those crazy few who buy stuff early on in the technology's life helping to lower prices thus enabling more people to afford it. vBulletin Copyright ©2000 - 2003, Jelsoft Enterprises Limited. PPC Management vB Easy Archive Final - Created by Xenon |