Quote from: DeathAndTaxes on May 03, 2014, 05:11:21 PM

Quote from: hilariousandco on May 03, 2014, 04:39:23 PM

Yeah, I imagine it'll be quite a while before these become affordable. Might as well just stick with a 3TB drive or 2 2 x 2TB ones. I'm looking forward to the next generation of storage disks like this though: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holographic_Versatile_Disc

HVD is essentially dead. It was an expensive concept in 2004 and both HDD and SSD have gotten significantly cheaper since then. Lots of hype, lots of promises, lots of missed deadlines. Silicon is an amazing thing. A 1024 GB flash drive is essentially a 512 GB flash drive with chips that have double the density. If you can make one you can eventually make the other. Moore's law eventually means the larger one is cheaper than the smaller one use to be.

Well, I just linked to that one as an example, but I know there's other types of discs currently in development or have been developed, I just couldnt remember the names of them.