Holographic Storage Due 'Very end of 2006'

[Joe]

Hi Capacity Holographic storage is available @ the end of 2006 this technologly will allow 300 Gb to be stored on 1 single disk with data life of 50 Years and a read.write speed of 160 MB a second i very much like it .

Cons are it costs $10000 for the drive and $100 for each single use disk <initially> this was the price of the first Blu-ray DVD writers and disks

http://www.tomshardware.com/hardnews/20050525_183958.html

The idea of holographic media dates back about 12 years and InPhase already has been working about 5 years on Tapestry. At debut, the media will offer about 300 GByte of space and a data read/write performance of 160 MByte per second. Every 18 months, the capacity is scheduled to increase in steps of 800 GByte and 1.6 TByte per disc, which will be reached in 2009 or 2010. Data transfer rates are expected to be in a range of about 1 GByte per second.