| J. Clarke 2005-04-15, 5:46 pm |
| Radeon350@yahoo.com wrote:
>
> Paul Hyett wrote:
> HD-DVD
>
>
> heh, 300 GB is nothing compared to what else is on the horizon. The
> other holographic technology, the one proposed by an alliance of
> Japanese companies lead by Fuji Film and Optware, HVD ~ Holographic
> Versatile Disc, will reportedly start off at about 1 TeraByte or so,
> and go upto 3.9 TeraBytes.
Reported by _who_? The standards they've submitted to the ISO are for 30,
100, and 200 GB disks, with approval expected in late 2006 or early 2007.
> The InPhase technology ranges from 200 GB to 1.6 TeraBytes by
> comparison.
In other words about the same.
> If that weren't enough, Michael Thomas of the company called Colossal
> Storage, who says that HVD might have a fatal flaw, is working on
> something called (get ready to swallow this one) "Colossal Atomic
> Holographic DVR disc drives"
>
> "each one of which would be equal to a 10,000 to 100,000 Gigabyte Disk
> Drive"
>
> and I think that's the same as 10 to 100 TeraBytes
Has this company ever produced a product?
It's easy to say that you're going to use bafflegabbed trekulators to
achieve forty exabytes. It's a lot harder to actually do it.
> here's the 2 articles I've seen on this bad mofo
> http://p2pnet.net/story/3855
> http://p2pnet.net/story/842
>
>
> the main features of this "ultimate" storage technology
>
> "Advantage of Rewritable Atomic Holographic Optical Disk Drive Storage
> Colossal Storage wants its 3D Volume Holographic Optical Storage to be
> an " ALL IN ONE " Storage Solution replacing Ram, Rom, DRAM, Ovonic,
> Flash, 2D Optical Drives, Tape Drives, and Hard Drives for " ALL IN ONE
> " complete system hardware storage requirements."
>
> * New novel storage media - Ferroelectric Molecular Holographic
> Optical
> * New novel integrated semiconductor FE Read/Write Head
> * New novel recording using UV/Blue Laser Diode and electric field
> transducer
> * Potential bit density far exceeding present/future drive
> technology
> * Extremely Fast Switch Sub nanosecond State Change
> * Extremely High Read and Write Data Transfer Rates
> * Extended Temperature Range
> * No Altitude Requirements
> * Dense Packed Crystallis with densities >200 Tbits/sq.in.
> * 8 cents per Gigabyte versus Hard Drives cost of $ 1.00 cents
> Gigabyte
> * 1 10 Terabyte Removable Rewritable Fedisk will be $ 45
> * 1 10 Terabyte Fedisk = 20,000 DVD's or 4,000 Blu-Ray
> * Download 6,840 raw uncompressed TV Hours
> * Initial cost per gigabyte be greater than hard drives to
> recapture R&D expenses
> * No Power Requirements for Media - Non Volatile Media
> * Much higher sales margins for media, heads, and drive than data
> storage
Looks to me like a typical snake oil pitch.
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