Holographic Storage

No Moving Parts PC - soon

No fan - capillary closed circuit cooling (CCC)
Solid State Holographic Storage (SSHS) - no more clunky HDD's

Holographic Storage: Stores data on a holographic (3-dimensional)
image by passing light through light-sensitive crystals that retain the
light patterns. It will have multiple thousands of times more memory
capacity and no mechanical movements. Large blocks of data can be
written or read with a single read or write command as opposed to
today’s 2-dimensional storages that read and write data one bit at a
time. Researchers believe that a holographic data storage system in
which thousands of pages (blocks of data), each containing a million
bits, can be stored within the volume of a sugar cube. Ten gigabytes
(Gb) of data will fit in one cubic centimeter. Because holographic
system can have no moving parts and its pages are accessed in
parallel, it is estimated that data throughput on a holographic system
can reach one gigabit per second.
source:http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/dr...-Feb3_2006.pdf

Ok so I front up at my local computer store to order my new wize bang
no moving parts sugar cube sized modules HDD, only to be told they
will not be available before Xmas, and there is a limit of 1,000 modules
for each customer, thats 1,000 x 10GB = 10,000GB or 10TB.

I rang up my ISP and asked to upgrade my internet service speed from
18mbps to 400tbps for Xmas, they hung up on me.

But one day the internet will run at 400tbps, since OKI in Japan last
year achieved 160gbps (Gigabits per second) that the world record so
far !

I understand that Vista is compatable with Holographic storage, thats
what the lady in the software shop told me..

> I rang up my ISP and asked to upgrade my internet service speed from
> 18mbps to 400tbps for Xmas, they hung up on me.
>
> But one day the internet will run at 400tbps, since OKI in Japan last
> year achieved 160gbps (Gigabits per second) that the world record so
> far !
>
> I understand that Vista is compatable with Holographic storage, thats
> what the lady in the software shop told me..

LOL! I can see why you're grumpy! I would be too if I had been promised
the moon and ended up with a ball of dust-covered rock. Now, I'm waiting
for circuits that use Tachyons rather than electrons so they operate faster
than the speed of light. They're so fast, I can get my answers out before I
put
my data in!

Tom Lake

Tom wrote:
"Now, I'm waiting for circuits that use Tachyons rather than electrons so
they operate faster than the speed of light. They're so fast, I can get my
answers out before I put my data in!

LOL, right on, arn't we all.

"Tachyons" thats the fuel my neighbour uses in his car, I am sure, zoom,
bang, splutter, putt putt... get a horse and cart.

I would just settle for a PC that knew what I wanted it to do, with out
being told.

Puppy training leads to happy odedient adult dogs, now if we could only
train our young Vista OS to growup into obedient and helpful OS.

Vista take note, obedience means "Dutifully complying with the commands or
instructions of those in authority" not crashing would help for starters.