Holographic Storage Drives to be available this Fall

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Could magnetic tapes, hard drives and optical disc formats like Blu-ray be replaced by a data storage format that uses holograms? The world's first commercial holographic storage system is launched this autumn, with the product able to store the equivalent of 64 DVD movies on a disc about the size of a CD.

Holographic storage has been talked about since the 1960s, but it's taken more than 40 years for technology to catch up.


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Holographics set to feed a market hungry for data backup


It has taken 40 years, but our insatiable appetite for data has finally led to holograms for storage - if you've got the cash

George Cole
Thursday May 17, 2007
The Guardian

Could magnetic tapes, hard drives and optical disc formats like Blu-ray be replaced by a data storage format that uses holograms? The world's first commercial holographic storage system is launched this autumn, with the product able to store the equivalent of 64 DVD movies on a disc about the size of a CD.

Holographic storage has been talked about since the 1960s, but it's taken more than 40 years for technology to catch up.

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InPhase Technologies, based in Longmont, Colorado, is the latest company to get behind holographic storage. InPhase has spent 13 years developing materials, systems and processes. Its first products - marketed under the Tapestry brand - will be a 600GB write-once disc and a drive...

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