InPhase ships 300GB holographic media

[chaminga_d]

Last summer, Hitachi Maxell promised that first-generation holographic storage media would appear by the end of the year. It seems to have taken a little longer than expected, but The Register reports that InPhase Technologies—the company that co-developed the media with Hitachi Maxell—has begun shipping 300GB holographic discs and compatible drives. Of course, as with any new technology, there's somewhat of a price premium involved. In this case, InPhase is charging a cool $18,000 for holographic drives and $180 a pop for 300GB holographic discs. Drives can read and write data to the discs at a maximum speed of 20MB/s, roughly the same as a 16X DVD burner. Looking ahead, InPhase plans to release re-writeable holographic discs in 2008 and to bump up the storage capacity of its media to 1.6TB in 2010.

[Anusha]

$18,000 and $180 doesn't sound big enough to attract the customers :rolleyes:

[chaminga_d]

$18,000 and $180 doesn't sound big enough to attract the customers

Why is it every time I post about some new tech being developed, all the posters start flaming it as being too expensive, or too slow, or this that and the other.

People! This is a completely new technology. A step forward in the field of data storage. Of course it's not going to be consumer-level perfection in it's first iteration....

People need to pull the heads out of their..... and see things for the step forward they are, instead of saying it's worthless because they can't put it in their home PC the day it's released....

[lasanka]

hmmmmmmmmmmmmm dunno maybe dey dont like u!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
my god thats not gud idsi it..
lets hope im wrong..
lolz kiddin man gud posts... dont mind em!

[chaminga_d]

hmmmmmmmmmmmmm dunno maybe dey dont like u!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
my god thats not gud idsi it..
lets hope im wrong..
lolz kiddin man gud posts... dont mind em!

;) ;) ;) ;)

[Anusha]

Hey, we weren't accusing you of anything. Calm down.

Anyway, just imagine, US$180 for a 300GB disc?