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.