Nintendo has teamed up with InPhase Technologies for a new Holographic storage Disc Drives. Unfortunately the Technology is all new, and wouldnt be a viable solution for the current Wii storage issues. But it is innovate and exciting enough to be worth mentioning even now years before it will probably even be used for gaming systems. SAVING DATA IN 3-D A holographic disk isn’t much bigger than a DVD, but it holds 30 times as much data. A gel-like film inside stores bytes throughout its …
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Optical Storage
Most optical storage devices, such as a standard CD (Compact Disc), save one bit per pulse. HVDs manage to store 60,000 bits per pulse in the same place, in a truncated cone shape, that has a diameter of 500 micrometers at the top and 200 micrometers at the bottom. The HVD Alliance is trying to improve the storage capacity further to touch its dream 3.9 TB mark by inserting a larger number of cones on each track.
Competing Technologies
In addition to HDV, other proprietary standards are making advances optical disk techno
Holographic Memory Discs

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