Holographic Versatile Disc stores 1TB
 

"Japan-based Optware Corp. has announced it had achieved successfully the world's first recording and play back of digital movies on a Holographic Versatile Disc (HVD) with a reflective layer using Optware's revolutionary Collinear Holography."

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Kinda expensive aren't they?

give it time man

I know...I can't wait to get one in RW format...**drooles**

HAH!.. rw dual layer :)

100x speed...burners are free after rebate

It won't be too long; the first DVD players were over 1200 a peice at introduction and were down to about 400 in less than a year.

Who needs a hard drive with one of those things!

having all your data on one of those discs could prove to be unreliable.. scratch.. and there goes the farm! but you could make backups I guess.. also, they'd prob be noisy... and seek time would be slow

as long as the scratch isn't deep, it should be ok.

You do need a hard drive. I bet HVD-RW's would be ATA-66 max

Well at about 8 times the bandwidth of SATA and 4 of SCSI, I'm wondering what they would be using.

oh, I didn't see the "1 gigabyte per second". hmmm. Might require it's own PCI/-E card?

well since we aren't even taking advantage of most ata 133 and sata150.. 1 gig per second is about as important as pci-express at this point...

I forget exacly how fast PCI-E 8X is, but that might be it (I think it's like 2GBps). The HVD-RW might hook directly to a card on the 8x part of the bus

pci express is twice the bandwidth of agp, which is great and all.. but for current use, is worthless.. aka sata and that disc.. for now..

PCI-E 16X is twice the bandwidth of AGP

there's also PCI-E 8X, 4X, and I think a 1X too

there's actually video cards out there for PCI-E 8X too

I didn't know there was 8 and 4.. I knew there was 1 ... for regular stuff...

The 1X, 4X, 8X and 16X speeds are in comparison to AGP 1X. Basically, when we all switch over to PCI-E 16X, we know what to do with the AGP 2.0 and 3.0 (4X and 8X) slots... (1 and 2 GBPS).... HVD and RAIDed HVD's. :firedevil:

I really dont think you can read data off a disc like that @ 1gbps. the disc would have to be constently spinning, at an extremly fast rate (motor would probably brake within a few weeks). I woulden't use a disc storage as a constant access drive, I seriousely doubt it would work.

The peak data rate would be at up to 1 gbps at the parts of the disc with the greatest radius, with the minimum probably around 40% of that and the average at about 80% of that. DVD readers already read and write at 25 mbps and that's for a single stream of data.