[Rictor]

http://www.physorg.com/news785.html

The expected cost of the Atomic Holographic DVR disc drive will be from $570 to $750 with the replacement discs for $45.

One 10 terabyte to 100 terabyte 3.5 in FEdisk would be EQUAL to a 10,000 to 100,000 Gigabyte disk drive. That's greater 1,000 times any State of the Art hard disk technology with 100 Gigabytes on one disk. 2 EXABYTES of NEW data is generated every year world wide, and growing.

[kv1at3485]

Ah.  If this is the same holographic data storage technology I did some research on a while back, then...

I have been expecting this for a while.

[Liberator]

That's just obscene.  Cool, but obscene.

BTW, how much of that 2 exabytes is actually useful information and how much is drivel on someones blog.

[Thorn]

Probably about 1/1000th of it useful, 3/4ths of it porn, and the rest just trash....

[Taristin]

Hmm. I'd like to have one of these in my PC. That way I could actually not worry about space for eons...

[Ford Prefect]

Nobody is poling MY ferroelectric non-linear photonic bandgap crystals with any non-contact UV photon induced electric field if I have anything to say about it!

[Drew]

o.O @ Ford

[Bobboau]

still not enough porn

[Lightspeed]

Does anyone else think that http://colossalstorage.net/ is a bit..... odd?

And neither they nor the people from physorg know how to spell.

[Bobboau]

I think I fond me a good plase to wurk

[Rictor]

yeah, it is kind of suspicous. I mean, their website sucks, they apparently don't show up on any google search's and they're offering a rather outrageous invention. I'm hoping thats it not a front or something, cause I really wanna get my hands on one of those drives.

oh yeah, and check their website, they also outline their plans to provide crazy fast broadband. Hmm, I smell fraud.

[Lightspeed]

1) The price predictions are absolutely unlikely
2) Google doesn't know much about it
3) The website is obviously amateur work. They don't know how to spell or build a serious website. Instead, they plaster the place with thousands of different colours and styles, and pixelated images that make little or no sense.
4) Their 'info text' is contradicting itself on various points
5) If this were real, do you really think you'd get to know that much "inside information"?
7) I can conclude this is just a funny fake. Ridiculously bad-done, to say the least.

[Ford Prefect]

But what about that non-contact UV photon induced electric field poling of ferroelectric non-linear photonic bandgap crystals?! You only get that with top quality!

[MatthewPapa]

Originally posted by Lightspeed
1) The price predictions are absolutely unlikely
2) Google doesn't know much about it
3) The website is obviously amateur work. They don't know how to spell or build a serious website. Instead, they plaster the place with thousands of different colours and styles, and pixelated images that make little or no sense.
4) Their 'info text' is contradicting itself on various points
5) If this were real, do you really think you'd get to know that much "inside information"?
7) I can conclude this is just a funny fake. Ridiculously bad-done, to say the least.

Anyhow it would be impractical at this point in software technology. What file system would you use? It would take like all day for your computer to read the index to the drive to get to the file you want. Also, you would need a connection that could HAUL ass like nothing before it (much faster than USB, FIrewire.) I just dont think it could be possible right now. I would at least give it 5 years, but who knows?

[Lightspeed]

I'm going to found the Sirius Cybernetics Coorporation and produce cool products with non-contact UV photon induced electric field poling of ferroelectric non-linear photonic bandgap crystals. I'm gonna be rich!

Interested, Ford?

[Ford Prefect]

That's gold, Jerry! Gold!

[Bobboau]

Mmmmmm.... crystals....

[Knight Templar]

Originally posted by Liberator
That's just obscene.  Cool, but obscene.

BTW, how much of that 2 exabytes is actually useful information and how much is drivel on someones blog.

You won't be saying that in ten years when games cost 100 Gigs per install.

[Stealth]

iiiiiii

... highly doubt that

[Tiara]

3D Volume Holographic Optical Storage Nanotechnology

And you guys expected this to be real? If we lived in the Star Trek universe maybe Sounds like a Borg assimilated hard drive