Tuesday, January 11, 2005

How About 1.6 Terabytes per Disc

InPhase Technologies Inc. is planing on bringing holographic storage drives to market by 2006. The company plans to demonstrate its first fully functioning prototype Tapestry holographic drive at the 2005 Storage Visions conference, being held in Las Vegas

InPhase's holographic storage media stores data in three-dimensional holograms cut into a polymer material 1.5 mm (0.06 inch) thick that is placed between two 130 mm (5.1-inch) plastic discs. Because holographic devices are able to store data in three-dimensional "pages," they are expected to have a much larger capacity than CDs or DVDs, which store data only on the disc's surface.

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