InPhase announces Tapestry Hologram Storage

InPhase Technologies has announced its Tapestry hologram storage product which will roll out this may, consisting of 120mm (5.25″) diameter clear plastic disks in a cartridge case. A blue laser will be used to store holographic images in the depth of the recording medium on the disk’s surface. Initial disks have a life span of 50 years, featuring read and write speeds of up to 20MB/s. Unfortunately, these won’t be cheap since as each Tapestry drive will cost up to $18,000 and individual disks cost $180 each, storing a total of 300GB. Maybe the seventh-generation Xbox or PlayStation will see this medium being used, and hopefully we won’t have another format war coming up.