Potential Holographic Storage Breakthrough

[Eric S.]

Within the next few years, we may begin seeing relatively affordable holographic storage. Cheap discs could store 500 GB. Should be interesting. Apparently GE has been working on the microholographic storage tech for ~6 years.

"The recent breakthrough by the team, working at the G.E. lab in Niskayuna, N.Y., north of Albany, was a 200-fold increase in the reflective power of their holograms, putting them at the bottom range of light reflections readable by current Blu-ray machines... So a player that could read microholographic storage discs could also read CD, DVD and Blu-ray discs." (From NYT)

As always, a healthy bit of skepticism is useful. Still, it's nice to see progress being made. Holographic storage. Directional energy weapons. A new JJ Abrams Star Trek. All I need now are some hot and unruly alien babes and you can call me James T. Kirk.

Further reading:

Tom's Hardware Write-Up:
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/ge-holographic-storage-500gb-discs,7642.html

NY Times Article:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/27/technology/business-computing/27disk.html?_r=1

Official GE site:
http://www.ge.com/research/grc_2_3_1.html

 

[Gavin Greenwalt]

Ok this is just getting rediculous. NO MORE HOLOGRAPHIC STORAGE THREADS.

We have 4 already.

 

[Eric S.]

Blah. Not sure how I missed that. Will lock thread.

I go and do a couple of full day shoots and look what I miss, sigh.

But you have to love my witty line at the end, right?

 

[Gavin Greenwalt]

Certainly had more wit than any of the others.

By the way there's this pig flu thing. Keep your eye out for it. Welcome back to civilization.

 

[Dan Hudgins]

uncompressed storage

uncompressed storage

500GB on a small disk should be good for uncompressed DI storage, but 500TB would be better... maybe next year...

 

[Eric S.]

Certainly had more wit than any of the others.

By the way there's this pig flu thing. Keep your eye out for it. Welcome back to civilization.

I've heard some of the news. I'm really hoping that we caught this thing early enough. The last thing our world needs right now is a major pandemic. It looks like the threat is being taken seriously though, because it seems to be affecting people aged 20-50 the most, just like the 1969 Hong Kong flu.

500GB on a small disk should be good for uncompressed DI storage, but 500TB would be better... maybe next year...

Exactly. I'm thinking that LTO will still be cheaper overall when / if this technology appears for public use. Still, I think that this is microholographic technology (which, from my understanding, can become cheaper more quickly). Perhaps full-blown holographic storage will yield the next, next gen of optical storage.

I'm also interested in seeing how GE is tackling read / write issues and access times. They're presenting their initial findings at an expo in Orlando in the next few weeks. Luckily, I have contacts in Orlando, so maybe I can ninja some information out of them.

Eric

 

[Gavin Greenwalt]

If you ask me we should treat every year's flu this way.

IF YOU ARE SICK STAY HOME FOR 3 DAYS.

Isolate the sick. Keep it contained. Just imagine a world where we kept the Flu limited to a few hundred people every year. ..... if only.

 

[Jeff Kilgroe]

I'm sick right now... If I could only find the bastard I contracted it from. Grrr... Don't know where i got it actually, no one else around me is sick and I've had it for about 10 days now. I think I got it from that smelly guy I sat next to on my flight to phoenix about 2 weeks ago. The ^@*$sucker coughed and sucked in his own snot almost continuously for the entire 90 minute flight.

Oh well... I'm headed to Vegas, maybe I can share this crud with a few other unsuspecting people. Hehe.. At least it isn't swine flu.

I know one thing. I had not been sick with anything in years, then I had kids. All was OK until they started going to school. Now I swear they bring home some new illness every other week. Kid gets it for 36 hours, I have it for 10 days. it sucks.

 

[Joseph Ward]

I remember when colossal storage was bragging about their tech.

http://colossalstorage.net/

 

[Gavin Greenwalt]

My mom is a special ed teacher so I always got every disease from every school system in the city in grade school. If it wasn't going around my school, she probably would be exposed to it at another.

What I always hated most were people who bragged about their perfect attendance. "Yeah perfect attendance... and I remember you sniffling over everyone in class twice a year you bastard."

I wasn't at all suprised to hear that almost everyone infected in the US so far were students.

 

[JanneJansson]

I'm sick right now... If I could only find the bastard I contracted it from. Grrr... Don't know where i got it actually, no one else around me is sick and I've had it for about 10 days now. I think I got it from that smelly guy I sat next to on my flight to phoenix about 2 weeks ago. The ^@*$sucker coughed and sucked in his own snot almost continuously for the entire 90 minute flight.

Oh well... I'm headed to Vegas, maybe I can share this crud with a few other unsuspecting people. Hehe.. At least it isn't swine flu.

I know one thing. I had not been sick with anything in years, then I had kids. All was OK until they started going to school. Now I swear they bring home some new illness every other week. Kid gets it for 36 hours, I have it for 10 days. it sucks.

Swine flue everywhere these days Just don't go and die bro.

 

[Roberto Lequeux]

Lol... days worth of 4k with Red Ray means you won't need to edit your features anymore, just throw all the raw footage in there and let them imagine what it could have been like...

 

[Joe G.]

Before we are all reduced to Resident Evil status, might as well clarify: it's not really "swine flu." There are two kinds of swine, one bird and some human flu DNA segments all mixed into this super virus. Somebody made this in a lab, intentionally.

 

[Gavin Greenwalt]

Yeah because virii aren't known for their propensity to cross contaminate themselves.

/sarcasm

 

[Roberto Lequeux]

Before we are all reduced to Resident Evil status, might as well clarify: it's not really "swine flu." There are two kinds of swine, one bird and some human flu DNA segments all mixed into this super virus. Somebody made this in a lab, intentionally.

Muahahahaha... :thumbsup:

Anyone catch the Daily Show the day before yesterday? Hilarious correspondent segment on Swine Flu with John Oliver and Jason Jones. Very fitting. http://www.thedailyshow.com/full-episodes/index.jhtml?episodeId=225150
Keep skipping ahead till the end of the clips, the story is at the very start of the third segments of the show. It is called "Last 100 Days".

Hope you feel better soon.