31 Jan
2009
31 Jan
'09
8:40 p.m.
Jim is right ( write ? );
IBM is working on a Lithium Niobate ( LiNbO3 ) Holographic memory that could
store tens of Terabytes in a chunk the size of a sugar cube. Because of
optics issues this would have to be a non-removable media for now. Kiss your
DVDs goodbye. ( reference: LASER Focus World ).
Best regards, Steven
Holger Veit wrote:
BlueRay (which I give 2 years
until the next technology will be thrown on the customer obsoleting the
format).
Don't bet on it. Blu-Ray is the last consumer-deliverable physical
media, which means it is the last consumer archival media. The entire
entertainment industry has seen the writing on the wall and is moving
toward digital distribution. There will not be a successor to Blu-Ray.
In the future, we won't be burning to pieces of plastic for archiving.
I fully expect to be archiving exclusively to hard disks in 10 years and
SSDs in 15. Eventually in 25 years all storage (flash/ssd/hard
disks/tape/BD-R/DVD-R/etc.) will converge into a single technology.
--
Jim Leonard