300GB Holographic CD’s on the Horizon
With “Affordable” HD-DVD and BluRay-DVD just coming out in the forms of XBox 360 HD-DVD add on and the PLAYSTATION 3, will Hitachi-Maxell’s upcoming announcement about their 300GB holographic CD’s become a problem.
Not for the moment as the cost of these Holographic discs would be between $100 and $125, and the optical drive somewhere in the region of $15,000. But with plans of second-generation 800GB rewritable optical disc with data transfer rates of about 80MBbps, and more plans to expand its capacity to 1.6TB by 2010 could this be the media our children will be using.
My money is on larger hard disc drive for the moment and larger internet bandwidth, although this would be the best media of when it comes to backing up all your data, rather than hundreds of DVDs.
