Holographic storage made headlines yesterday for the first time in months. This time it’s The Register that brings us the news that General Electric has plans for a holographic storage product.
While this type of storage has promised incredible gains in density for years, actual shipping products are hard to find. InPhase has its 300 GB Tapestry drives on the roadmap for release later this year; but with Blu-Ray disks getting closer to that capacity and normal hard drives and tapes surpassing it easily, the technology has so far failed to deliver. Continue reading Holographic storage: still a long way to go
