Hitachi Maxell plans to demonstrate a 300GB version of a holographic optical disc!

[Dave]

300GB DVD launches next month for customers!

Hitachi Maxell plans to demonstrate a 300GB version of a holographic optical disc this week that will be available to select customers in the entertainment industry beginning next month.

InPhase Technologies, which was spun off from Bell Laboratories in 2000, is producing the holographic disc - called the Tapestry HDS-300R. The launch of the product to a limited number of customers next month will be followed by a general product release in the first quarter of 2007 aimed at enterprise-class users.

The new DVD is being demonstrated this week at the International Broadcast Equipment Exhibition in Tokyo.

InPhase would not disclose pricing, but it's been reported that the product is likely to retail for $100 to $125 (about £52 to £66) based on the price of Maxell's current Tapestry disk products.

While the first generation of the 300GB DVD is aimed at commercial use, InPhase expects a consumer-grade product launch over the next two years in what it hopes will be a standardised format.

Lisa Dhar, vice-president of media development at InPhase, said the product will first be marketed to the entertainment industry for high-speed, high-capacity film recording, and to enterprise-class companies for data archiving operations. The 300GB product will have data transfer rates of about 20MBps (megabytes per second).

In 2008, InPhase plans a second-generation 800GB rewritable optical disc with data transfer rates of about 80MBps, with plans to expand its capacity to 1.6TB by 2010.

http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/news/index.cfm?newsid=7588


$125 divided by 300GB = $0,42 per GB *w00t*


Currently i still think that Blu-Ray is the way, but ...

[phloyd]

Originally Posted by Dave

$125 divided by 300GB = $0,42 per GB *w00t*

Umm - 300GB hard drives cost less than that...!

[blitz6speed]

Originally Posted by phloyd

Umm - 300GB hard drives cost less than that...!

I bought 2 400 gig Seagates brand new for 179 shipped. They have a ways to go lol

[Dave]

Originally Posted by phloyd

Umm - 300GB hard drives cost less than that...!

We are talking here about optical storage. HDDs have not proven to be good in carrying with you all the time and swapping with friends at will

[phloyd]

True true - I prefer to archive to optical discs.

In any case, this will be domain of the professionals for quite some time yet.

[theknub]

for me it really depends on how much i am archiving and how "live" i need it to be. if i am archiving 300+ GB, i tend to need it "live." thus, tape isn't a good option and i have a hard time using any compression. that leaves me with hard drives as my medium of choice since cost per GB is so low. if it is anything less, it is typically no more than a few GBs in which case optical works perfect. the only time i have issues is when it is more than 2-3 DVD's and it's needed live. and then, i'll just say screw it and pop in a portable hard drive and call it a day.