Hi,
After looking at the other topics, I'm not sure if this is a Highly Technical question.
Last week I attended a brief on holographic storage and optical network solutions (which also tied in WiMAX for the MANs). The storage device is highly resiliant to extreme temps and can be dropped from a decent height without damage (there are no moving parts). The storage solution sounds great from what was proposed. But there was one thing the briefer left out. His company (and many others) are banking on the maturity of a new photopolymer. Right now we are a few orders of magnitude away from the storage capacity they believe can be had. And an expected transfer of close to 100Gbps seems far-fetched within the timeline they described.
This is not my specialty, but as far as I know the current photopolymer is much like a CD-R. Write once, read many. And in fact there is an unlimited read along with this technology. This would be great for backing information up or archiving information. But this would not be an ideal hard drive replacement.
Now here is what was proposed. A 1cm^3 that can hold 100Gbytes. That's 800,000 1 million bit pages. Right now reports of 100 pages is possible and maybe 1000 pages. This medium is also said to be cheap. We're talking $50 per cube. No moving parts, small, fast, and highly affordable. This could replace all forms of memory. This include flash memory, dram, and even hard drives. This solution would be faster and cheaper and way more reliable than all the alternatives.
When we say $50 per cube, we mean they are stackable. 1Tbyte would cost $500. The scability of this solution is equally astounding.
Being based on optical technology, this device can connect directly to SONET and be used as a direct internet storage device. The request for information will run across SONET and be demuxed by a specialized device which can decode and output a usable wavelength for the memory array. There is no conversion to electricity required. And the device can run at the highest speeds of the network. This will allow for many sessions to be open at the same time with no performance degradation.
This solution will not happen over night. It will cost about $10M and be done in stages. The last stage is said to complete first quarter 2008.
I would like to know how mature this technology is and how feasible are their claims.
The other technologies in the brief were more down to earth both in terms of cost and maturity of technology.
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After looking at the other topics, I'm not sure if this is a Highly Technical question.
Last week I attended a brief on holographic storage and optical network solutions (which also tied in WiMAX for the MANs). The storage device is highly resiliant to extreme temps and can be dropped from a decent height without damage (there are no moving parts). The storage solution sounds great from what was proposed. But there was one thing the briefer left out. His company (and many others) are banking on the maturity of a new photopolymer. Right now we are a few orders of magnitude away from the storage capacity they believe can be had. And an expected transfer of close to 100Gbps seems far-fetched within the timeline they described.
This is not my specialty, but as far as I know the current photopolymer is much like a CD-R. Write once, read many. And in fact there is an unlimited read along with this technology. This would be great for backing information up or archiving information. But this would not be an ideal hard drive replacement.
Now here is what was proposed. A 1cm^3 that can hold 100Gbytes. That's 800,000 1 million bit pages. Right now reports of 100 pages is possible and maybe 1000 pages. This medium is also said to be cheap. We're talking $50 per cube. No moving parts, small, fast, and highly affordable. This could replace all forms of memory. This include flash memory, dram, and even hard drives. This solution would be faster and cheaper and way more reliable than all the alternatives.
When we say $50 per cube, we mean they are stackable. 1Tbyte would cost $500. The scability of this solution is equally astounding.
Being based on optical technology, this device can connect directly to SONET and be used as a direct internet storage device. The request for information will run across SONET and be demuxed by a specialized device which can decode and output a usable wavelength for the memory array. There is no conversion to electricity required. And the device can run at the highest speeds of the network. This will allow for many sessions to be open at the same time with no performance degradation.
This solution will not happen over night. It will cost about $10M and be done in stages. The last stage is said to complete first quarter 2008.
I would like to know how mature this technology is and how feasible are their claims.
The other technologies in the brief were more down to earth both in terms of cost and maturity of technology.
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