GE (General Electric) announced today that they have achieved a major breakthrough in disc storage technology. They claim to have created a form of holographic storage, which allows a jaw-dropping 500 gigabytes of information to be stored on a single disc – no bigger than a regular DVD!
Holographic storage again?
There have been claims about holographic storage for years, but progress has been frustrating at times. The claim made by GE, is that they have found an affordable way to produce the technology required, using something called microholographic storage.
According to an article in today’s NYTimes, by 2011 this technology could provide storage at one tenth the cost of Blu-ray (when it launched!)
Let’s see!
500 gigs?! Wow… That’s awesome. Triple what I have on my laptop 0.0 I can use one disc as backup for the rest of my life… lol (multisession FTW)
Cool!! RT @thetechnewsblog: “Store 500 gigabytes on ONE disc!” http://tinyurl.com/dg43rs
RT @tommytrc @murnahan Store 100 DVDs on just one disc! http://bit.ly/GruIB
500 Gigabytes on one disk?! Yes please… http://tinyurl.com/dg43rs
Store 100 DVD’s on just one disc! – http://tinyurl.com/dg43rs
RT @thetechnewsblog: “Store 100 DVD’s on just 1 disc!” http://tinyurl.com/dg43rs
“Store 100 DVD’s on just 1 disc!” http://tinyurl.com/dg43rs (via @thetechnewsblog)
RT @thetechnewsblog: “Store 100 DVD’s on just 1 disc!” http://tinyurl.com/dg43rs me: pointless when everything’s to be up in the cloud soon
RT @thetechnewsblog “Store 100 DVD’s on just 1 disc!” http://tinyurl.com/dg43rs
Fit 500 GB of data onto 1 CD sized disk! The Tech News Blog http://bit.ly/OAcIG
That is freaking awesome, now question is how stable will this storage be.