Holy crap!

Sora121 · Posted: Fri Jun 20, 2008 1:23 am Post subject: Holy crap!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holographic_Versatile_Disc

LOL WTF?
That is just outrageous... I feel kinda old, now. Like the computer world suddenly picked up and shot passed my ass faster than light...

Seriously, wouldn't I have heard a bit more about [size=18][b]3.9TB[/b][/size] worth of data storage, sooner?
I mean, I though we WERE having trouble with just ONE Terabyte on a HDD, till solid state harddrives came to the surface.

I'ma go twiddle my thumbs in the corner now... I'm already to old for the computer age. Sad

Fayore · Moderator Joined: 12 Mar 2004 Posts: 6195

...I kinda thought we were supposed to be moving past the age of the disc.

Who was it that said it was senseless for there to be moving parts in order to access data? I don't remember, but man. I would totally take my flash drive over a giant honkin' thing like that.

The only thing I can see it useful for, really, is archival purposes and man, those things will break eventually anyway. =n=
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Sora121 · Posted: Fri Jun 20, 2008 5:28 am Post subject:

I agree, and would hate to think of a reason anyone would need one of these for home-based use...
Several years worth of music, videos, pictures, porn, other data...

[quote] - Using MPEG4 ASP encoding, a 3.9 TB HVD could hold 4,600–11,900 hours of video—just over one year of uninterrupted video at usual encoding rates.
- Using typical satellite radio encoding (CT-aacPlus at 40 kbit/s), a 3.9 TB HVD could hold over 26.5 years of uninterrupted stereo audio.[/quote]

LOL

cstdenis · Posted: Fri Jun 20, 2008 8:34 am Post subject:

HVD have been around experimentally/theoretically for several years. They were supposed to be the replacements for DVD but they are taking too long so we get BlueRay instead.
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Sora121 · Posted: Fri Jun 20, 2008 9:38 am Post subject:

Well, BluRay isn't half bad. I could see that for practical use, just not 4 terabytes.

Seriously, my new 500GB harddrive has all kinds of stuff on it, and I've still got about a little over half the harddrive worth of free space.
I think that the most I would ever use is a terabyte.

cstdenis · Posted: Fri Jun 20, 2008 11:29 am Post subject:

the holographic CDs space will be easily filled by the HD holographic movies.

Or just wait for someone to rip all of (DBZ, Sailor Moon, Inuyahsa, Naruto, other long series) in 1280P. You'll need the holo disk to hold it. Switching disks is lame.
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Sora121 · Posted: Fri Jun 20, 2008 3:48 pm Post subject:

Well, yeah actually, that would make sense.