1.6 Terabytes on a floppy disc...

[smellysocks12]

At first I thought they were speaking about a new hard disk, but it looks like it's actually a holographic floppy disc.

Read

Official press statement

 

[Jondot]

Eeeep, that's some technology. I bet you it won't be as cheap as a floppy disk though ...

 

[Dave A]

I read about the development of something like this a while ago didn't think it was so close to completion though.

Thats some pretty impressive stuff, 120Megabytes per second.

 

[smellysocks12]

I have to say that the early versions will offer 300 Gb disc space and 20 Mb/sec transfer rate. Still not too shabby.


Nearly as large as the biggest hard drive available right now.

 

[TsLeng]

I read about it sometime ago, this holographic tech.

If im not mistaken, the hardware to read it will cost a bomb.

But as with all tech, 1 day, we will soon be swarmed by these 👍

 

[Pebb]

They said on Gadget show storage and speed on CPU's will not be able to extend any futher on the current tech of stuff. Till 2020, but people are working on using DNA and other stuff to make storage and CPU speeds go futher mates.

 

[Dave A]

A lot of companies are looking into alternate sources other than Sillicon for cpu's, they're pretty close to the limits of what they can do without increasing the processors physical size. They've been looking into bio materials, light, coal and more. But yeah none of that will be developed for a while yet.

 

[niky]

Egads, I must have one of those drives.

By the way, bit of trivia. The approximate amount of space one would require to hold the entire contents of a human brain theoretically is merely 3 terabytes or so. We're getting pretty close to digital parity...

 

[VIPFREAK]

The approximate amount of space one would require to hold the entire contents of a human brain theoretically is merely 3 terabytes or so. We're getting pretty close to digital parity...

I think mine is defective then.

 

[Shannon]

1.6TB? Who honestly needs that much space? Sure, you might be able to backup a server farm onto it, but what if you lose the disc? You lose everything. At least with a 4GB DVD I only lose 4GB.

They said on Gadget show storage and speed on CPU's will not be able to extend any futher on the current tech of stuff. Till 2020, but people are working on using DNA and other stuff to make storage and CPU speeds go futher mates.

All the rage in the future is quantum computing.

Basically, light is slowed down and data is attached to the photons. Then plucked off at the other end. Similar to CD burning, only much faster.

 

[Dave A]

1.6TB? Who honestly needs that much space? Sure, you might be able to backup a server farm onto it, but what if you lose the disc? You lose everything. At least with a 4GB DVD I only lose 4GB. :dopey.

Me, I never lose my disks eaither.

 

[Pebb]

You will need it in the future, i reckon by 2011. Most people will that amount of storage on a disc. I just hope they make a memory stick with that amount.

 

[smellysocks12]

We will need it by the time cd's get replaced for some 20 channel medium and dvd's are replaced by blu-ray or whatever. Back when the first gigabyte hard disc was introduced I didn't know how it would be possible to fill that up either.

 

[amp88]

1.6TB? Who honestly needs that much space? Sure, you might be able to backup a server farm onto it, but what if you lose the disc? You lose everything. At least with a 4GB DVD I only lose 4GB.

Burn multiple copies and/or don't lose your discs

The more pertinent question is why not have more storage space? Too much is never enough, and the more we get the cheaper it is for small amounts. Look at flash drives...I've got a half gig drive myself and the absolute max I can see myself putting on it is a couple of hundred meg. It only cost £20, but if people weren't demanding more space (to end up never using it) it probably would have cost a shedload more. I've got a fair deal of hard drive space in this system (certainly more than the average user) and it only cost a couple of hundred quid in total. Had the markey not been driven by bigger and better numbers, who can say how much it would have been?

 

[discopotato]

OH GNOEZ TEH MACHINES ARE RISING!!!!
that would be crazy if machines could think. i doubt that'd happen though. and why would it want to kill us?

 

[toyomatt84]

w00t! I like this.

 

[Ev0]

I wonder what pricing will be like...

 

[Plague.Ghost]

This is only pertinent to gamers. Most home PC's will never need this.

 

[TsLeng]

This is only pertinent to gamers. Most home PC's will never need this.

You mean gamers need lotsa space? That is....if you can afford loads of games and never uninstall them...


My pictures, mp3s, data, videos..all take up much more space than games.

And who needs a PC for games when we have super consoles coming out?

 

[jammyozzy]

From the official press release:

"Finally, the media is expected to have the lowest cost per gigabyte of any commercial quality removable storage.

'Holographic media makes it possible for millions of pages of information and high definition images to be held on one small, relatively inexpensive disc...'"

Hopefully these shouldn't be too expensive.

 

[Omnis]

http://www.gizmag.com/go/3661/

Here it is, folks, the HVD. I wonder how Blu-Ray's longevity will hold up now.

 

[Solid Lifters]

http://www.gizmag.com/go/3661/

Here it is, folks, the HVD. I wonder how Blu-Ray's longevity will hold up now.

Probably for a seven to ten years. I doubt that HVD will catch on, thanks to the price. They go for $3,000 -$4,000 each. Ouch. Plus, will we need that much space? Plus, current high-definition technology wont benefit that much from something like this, which is not geared toward the consumer market.

But, computer nerds and the business world is going to love these things.

 

[Iceman]

Probably for a seven to ten years. I doubt that HVD will catch on, thanks to the price. They go for $3,000 -$4,000 each. Ouch.

For the reader or for the disc itself? $3,000 for a single disc is just downright outrageous...

 

[Omnis]

an HVD reader currently costs approximately $15,000, and a single HVD disk costs about $120. Readers might be as low as 3k, but I'm not sure.

But, yeah, it's definitely not for the majority of the consumer market. Not yet, anyway. By mentioning Blu-Ray's longevity, I'm talking about for big studios and stuff. Lucasfilm Ltd. will probably opt for using holographics instead of their vast HD networked hardware systems and any blu-ray technology they could've incorporated into it, for example.

 

[Solid Lifters]

an HVD reader currently costs approximately $15,000, and a single HVD disk costs about $120. Readers might be as low as 3k, but I'm not sure.

But, yeah, it's definitely not for the majority of the consumer market. Not yet, anyway. By mentioning Blu-Ray's longevity, I'm talking about for big studios and stuff. Lucasfilm Ltd. will probably opt for using holographics instead of their vast HD networked hardware systems and any blu-ray technology they could've incorporated into it, for example.

Oh, definitely. I doubt they'll stay with Blu-ray for longer than a year, or two. That's why they were so hesitant with joining the BDA. They know what's coming down the pipeline.

But, I'm sure they'll stick with BD as the media choice to release their movies on for a long time to come.