Tim Almond

From Crunchgear

InPhase today announced that it has begun bulk shipping its 300GB holographic storage disks. The platters are 1.5-millimeters thick and cost $180 each. That is on top of the initial $18,000 investment for the Tapestry HDS-300R drive. InPhase says that the drives should expand to capacities of 1.6TB by 2010.

OK. Very expensive stuff right now, probably to be used for very large archiving of things like movies without compression. But, it’s already beyond the levels of Blu-Ray, so this will be the next storage after that, I think. And like all computer technology, will get cheaper.

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