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Re: Maxell Releases Holographic Storage Medium

fosman — Sat, 26 Nov 2005 19:10:00 -0000

Its big. And its quick.

That's it.

Now stop being losers. Espically math losers.

Re: Maxell Releases Holographic Storage Medium

Max — Sat, 26 Nov 2005 14:44:48 -0000

It's not 120mbits it's 120 mbytes/s

Re: Maxell Releases Holographic Storage Medium

Jimbo McFartybuns — Sat, 26 Nov 2005 11:57:14 -0000

Press releases are for housewives and little girls, man. COOL people (who know math, man!) don't NEED to read the press release, because anything they say is true.

For instance, the new Holographic thingummy runs on tyvek envelopes and the tears of a rare Nigerian fruitbat.

Aaaaah, bup bup bup, no need to check the press release! It is true, for I have ordained it.

Re: Maxell Releases Holographic Storage Medium

locus.solus — Sat, 26 Nov 2005 05:51:11 -0000

"What? Maybe my math is different from yours, but if the disk would hold 1.6TB and a single sided dual-layered dvd holds 9GB then that means one disk would hold the same amount of data as 177.77 dvds, not 63. If you were referring to dual-layered double-sided dvds (18GB) then the disk would hold the same amount as 88 dvds.

Just pointing out your shitty math."

maybe he was talking about a regular single layer dvd fitting in the 300gb disk which would be the first thing available to consumers.

"The first generation of holographic media with 300 GB of storage capacity and a 20 MBPs Transfer Rate is scheduled for release in late 2006."

but you knew that because you're oh so smart and read the press release...

Re: Maxell Releases Holographic Storage Medium

alex — Fri, 25 Nov 2005 06:18:28 -0000

What? Maybe my math is different from yours, but if the disk would hold 1.6TB and a single sided dual-layered dvd holds 9GB then that means one disk would hold the same amount of data as 177.77 dvds, not 63. If you were referring to dual-layered double-sided dvds (18GB) then the disk would hold the same amount as 88 dvds.

Just pointing out your shitty math.

Re: Maxell Releases Holographic Storage Medium

Will Dwinnell — Thu, 24 Nov 2005 09:39:02 -0000

Nitpick: "tera-" is "T", not "t".

Re: Maxell Releases Holographic Storage Medium

knowgood — Thu, 24 Nov 2005 09:33:44 -0000

Sorry, should have been "when we rent..."

Re: Maxell Releases Holographic Storage Medium

knowgood — Thu, 24 Nov 2005 09:32:58 -0000

I hope HVD are protected somehow. When we read DVDs they always have finger prints on them and we have to clean them.

Re: Maxell Releases Holographic Storage Medium

Jealousy — Thu, 24 Nov 2005 02:47:16 -0000

So this is better than HVD (Holographic Versatile Disc)?
http://www.optware.co.jp/en...

Re: Maxell Releases Holographic Storage Medium

John — Wed, 23 Nov 2005 22:28:29 -0000

Says, 120 "MegaBytes"/sec on Maxell's site

"...and data rates as high as 120 MBPs..."

Re: Maxell Releases Holographic Storage Medium

Oz — Wed, 23 Nov 2005 21:54:48 -0000

bench your hard drive and weep!

Re: Maxell Releases Holographic Storage Medium

Tim — Wed, 23 Nov 2005 18:33:08 -0000

120Mbps? 120 Million bits? @ ~10 bits per byte (I'm allowing for some overhead) thats ~12 megabytes a second. USB 2.0 and Firewire are 40megaBYTEs a second right?
Enough for video, but a step back for overall speed.