Holographic storage media is one of the future storage technologies we’ve earlier reported about and now the Japanese company Optware has taken one step further a final launch of a holographic storage media. It has namely founded an American company called, OPTWARE Corporation of America Inc., which will be based in USA and help with marketing the new storage technology. The technology is called HVD (Holographic Versatile Disc) and will allow discs, the same size as today’s DVD-discs, for storing up to 1TB data. The first generation of HVD will appear during June 2006 and then we are talking about writeable media with a capacity at 200GB. But this is only for the industrial market as both media and players/burners will be very expensive.
”The HVD player/recorder machines as well as the first-generation writeable discs that can store 200G bytes will go on sale from next June for the enterprise storage market, and HVD players accompanied by 100G-byte read-only HVD discs should be available for the consumer market in 2008. The new 200GB HVD media will be available for around US $80-100. Moreover, the first HVD drives will be priced at US $30000.”
Concluding, we are looking forward to new technologies arriving and whether HVD will actually be able to compete with Blu-ray and HD DVD when it arrives on the consumer market in 2008 remains to see.
Source: CDR Info
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