1TB Disks This Year?

[OIDanTheManIO]

Holographic storage drives capable of up to 1TB of data storage may be available as early as this year, says Tokyo-based Optware Corp. Holographic Versatile Disc (HVD) will be capable of massive storage, as well as transfer rates of up to 1 GB per second. Optware’s announced came less than a week after a similar announcement from InPhase Technologies. InPhase recently began shipping its GDS5000 HVD drives based on WORM (Write Once Read Many) technology. A newer version, the Tapestry HDS-200R will be a fully recordable 200GB drive with 20MB per second transfer – it is expected to hit markets later this year. The advantage of using HVD style media is that, unlike optical discs like DVD and CD, HVD can read or write 10KB of data in parallel (optical data requires this to be done bit by bit). In addition, because data isn’t being read sequentially, there is no need for the disc to spin. In addition to increased storage capacity, potential benefits include reducing costs of storage by radically increased density and easier management. Brian Babinea, an analyst at Enterprise Strategy group, said the solution could solve the current disc space to floor volume issues enterprises are running into. "Right now, all business continuity plans include some sort of off-site storage, and the density and mobility of HVD media can make it more cost-effective to send data offsite," he said. But until these products actually hit the market, it's all speculation, he said. "HVD offers tremendous amounts of capacity, but they need to prove that the data can be accessed quickly without any quality degradation. Until then, it's a science project," he said. Optware and InPhase, as well as contenders Aprilis Inc. of Maynard, Mass. and Colossal Storage Corp. of San Jose, Calif., are doing their best to get HVD-based products to market and prove skeptics wrong. Both InPhase and Optware plan to have products available this year and to introduce more over the next several years.

by Jeremy C. Wright

Wow, that's going to be so cool! I wonder how much they'll charge for it and if the costs of smaller capacity hard drives will go way down.

Source: http://www.ebcvg.com/articles.php?id=579

-Dan The Man

[beedubaya]

Meh...i have only used half of my 240GB. However, this will be great for heavy movie downloaders.

[OIDanTheManIO]

Originally posted by beedubaya
Meh...i have only used half of my 240GB. However, this will be great for heavy movie downloaders.

Yep, I have tons of "movies" on my computer, if that's what you want to call them

-Dan The Man

[beedubaya]

Originally posted by OIDanTheManIO
Yep, I have tons of "movies" on my computer, if that's what you want to call them

-Dan The Man

LOL...I have a friend who has a whole 300GB hard drive filled with these "movies".

[OIDanTheManIO]

Originally posted by beedubaya
LOL...I have a friend who has a whole 300GB hard drive filled with these "movies".

WHOA! I have only 40GB of those things you call "movies".

-Dan The Man

[GrimReaper23]

those things lol

[vikeman21]

NEWEGG's got a 1TB

[Cubic_Circuit]

Originally posted by vikeman21
NEWEGG's got a 1TB

Really? Dude! Link! All I can find are 500GB drives. =(

HVD looks neat, I read about it in Scientific American like 4 years ago as a hypothetical possibility, and though "Oh, that's neat, I wonder if they'll ever do it...", and then I promptly forgot all about it.

-CC

[SHAWN]

I love to download and watch "movies" .

[Tyler1989]

http://www.hitachigst.com/hdd/resear...Animation.html

enough said