Holograph Storage

[ccd1]

Does anyone have any details on this? I know it will be out within the next three years and the storage capacity is phenominal. Does anyone know if it will really take off?

Here is a chart of the capacities and medias.

[Floris]

Your other post is about the same subject, why not post it in the other post instead of making two threads?

[ccd1]

Read them both again slowly

One is on holograph technology while the other is about upgrading media.

[Floris]

Originally posted by baragon0
Read them both again slowly

One is on holograph technology while the other is about upgrading media.

I read them slowly, it is now clear to me I have no interest in either threads, sorry for participating.

[N9ne]

ok 1000GB storage, now when are we going to need that much

[NetherChris]

I remember when 1.6GB took me over a year to fill up, and that was less than 6 years ago then again, if VS .NET didn't take up 2 gigs of space... he he

[ccd1]

Wow, check this out:

Since it involves no moving parts, holographic data storage will be far more reliable than existing hard disk technologies. IBM has already demonstrated the possibility of holding 1GB of data in a crystal the size of a sugar cube and of data access rates of one trillion bits per second. The major challenge ahead is expected to be the development of a rewritable form of holographic storage.

[Wayne Luke]

Originally posted by N9ne
ok 1000GB storage, now when are we going to need that much

Large businesses need that. I have worked on servers with terrabytes of information available on their drive arrays. One machine by itself had a 100 terrabyte Shark Drive Array attached to it.

[ccd1]

What could they possibly be storing? A virtual universe that you can upload yourself to?

[DirectPixel]

It could range from a file server to a backup service or to even a web server.

Corporations require lots of space. It is not unusual to see a small business having terabytes of storage these days.

[Wayne Luke]

Originally posted by baragon0
What could they possibly be storing? A virtual universe that you can upload yourself to?

Six million customer records and the alarm status of their alarms recorded every 15 seconds for the entire time they have a contract for their company.

For the mobile patrol services it stored the exact GPS location of every patrol car in the United States for the company every 10 seconds along with speed and status of the vehicle (on a call, breaktime, normal status, etc....)

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I know Lockheed has a server that contains a fullscale map of the world so they can flight simulate their aircraft. This database have over 1 trillion GPS readings in it and even simulates major structures for around the world.

I am sure NASA's map of the Universe takes up a bit of storage space on their servers.

At Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, they explode atoms and record the quantum fluctuations that result on a daily basis. There is a lot of data there.

You would be surprised what companies and organizations store nowadays.