Zo eens in de zoveel tijd zie je het weer staan: "In de toekomst zal data worden opgeslagen in hologram-kristallen". Als je nu wel eens wilt weten hoe dat werkt, heeft Tweak3D een aardig artikel geschreven over deze Star Trek-achtige technologie.
The PRISM project has stored up to 200 holograms composed of 37.5-KB data pages (640 by 480 bits resolution) into a crystal with less than 1 centimeter on each side, achieving a storage density of 48 MB per cubic cm. You must be thinking ?48 MB!? We?ve been developing holographic technology to store that little?!? Well, yes and no. Yes because that is an achievement of the technology previously not possible, and no because soon the same size volume of crystal will hold up to 10GB. The incentive is a page data density of 10 GB per cubic cm, a bit smaller than a standard gambling die. [break] Bovendien belooft deze technologie eindelijk weer eens flinke snelheidsverbeteringen in massa-opslag: [/break] IBM thinks that an HDSS system can retrieve adjacent data pages in fewer than 100 microseconds. "Any convention al optical or magnetic storage unit will require some sort of mechanical means to access different data tracks, which takes on the order of milliseconds to accomplish," they say. "A gigabit-per-second data rate appears reasonable for holographic storage, and this should make it a cost-competitive leader with whatever exists.
Met dank aan Pantagruel voor de tip.