betamaxDATminidisc Posted April 14, 2005 Report Share Posted April 14, 2005 Hi,The one new floppy 3,5inch with data capacities 1.6 TByte on a single disk (disk black) Holographic disc of Maxell-Hitachi!You see the link:http://www.tomshardware.com/hardnews/20050104_142527.htmlThis floppy disk holographic is similar HVD Alliance of InPhase, CMC, Optware And FujiFilm (rival with Blu-ray Disc and HD DVD)I would want new minidisk Holographic-MD!?!?I send you to attached file (logo_HD_DVD_Blu_ray_Disc_HVD.jpg). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Syrius Posted April 15, 2005 Report Share Posted April 15, 2005 IIRC, this medium does not spin. Rather, it's the head the one moving all across the surface of the medium. And from my point of view, this means that these things are going to be prone to calibration errors, and breakage. I doubt this will have much impact with Blu-Ray and HD-DVD in the horizon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christopher Posted April 15, 2005 Report Share Posted April 15, 2005 Whilst I think these sort of innovations are nice, I just can't see myself using that much data. Codecs [audio, video] haven't advanced enough to allow us to make proper use of such densities, like we do today. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spare Tire Posted April 15, 2005 Report Share Posted April 15, 2005 Holy shit, have you seen the size of the reader! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dex Otaku Posted April 15, 2005 Report Share Posted April 15, 2005 Now imagine a rack full of these drives, and HAL sitting beside it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spare Tire Posted April 24, 2005 Report Share Posted April 24, 2005 With that vast a storage space, beats the purpose of having swappable discs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest NRen2k5 Posted April 24, 2005 Report Share Posted April 24, 2005 It seems to me that it would mostly be useful for backup purposes, since it's WORM.And I think it would be pretty good at that! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silvadragon Posted May 2, 2005 Report Share Posted May 2, 2005 Would be crazy, but defeats the purpose of having multiple discs but i wouldn't mind, never to think about having to purchase another disc again. Plus, it kicks ipod-ass bad! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hobgoblin Posted May 5, 2005 Report Share Posted May 5, 2005 just what the world needs, another high capacity WORM media. i dont see this as a floppy replacement even tho it have a similar design (case and all that). to be a floppy replacement it have to be basicly like the md, fully randomly rewriteable. even the dvd/cd rw's are only rewriteable if you erase its toc first, you cant delete a file in the middle of it and reclaim the space it used... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest NRen2k5 Posted May 6, 2005 Report Share Posted May 6, 2005 So true.Actually the replacement for the floppy has already been here awhile.It's called the USB storage device.There is a whole slew of different USB devices that are automatically recognized by any modern computer as a new drive. All that we can really ask for is for frontside USB ports to become more common. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hobgoblin Posted May 6, 2005 Report Share Posted May 6, 2005 (edited) i would not call usb flash storage a floppy replacement by a long shot for a very important reason: the usb stick is to expensive to give away to someone. a floppy you can just hand of and forget about it as you can allways grab a new box of 10-20 floppys cheap.so we have 2-3 media formats that hva some of the functions of the classical floppy; cd/dvd: cheap media, but no ram-like rewritability. usb sticks: expensive media, ram-like rewriteability.the only formats that have come close to copying the floppy is the jazz and zip formats, a floppy extension that bombed (could read both old floppys and new 120mb discs) and the minidisc for general public use.atleast thats my opinion.so i would love to see sony open up their usb storage unit info so that companys could start making internal versions for use like the old floppy drive.yes, i know that these days you get flash readers in that slot but they have the problem of supporting 101 diffrent flash types and more are announced every month!the minidisc as a storage media is a stroke of genius, but sony's paranoia about pirates have turned it into a mess. Edited May 6, 2005 by hobgoblin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christopher Posted May 6, 2005 Report Share Posted May 6, 2005 Not really..most flash usb thumbdrives, like a 128mb model, can be had for like $15. Motherboards these days have options to boot from usb drive and other related options. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hobgoblin Posted May 6, 2005 Report Share Posted May 6, 2005 still, can you get a box of 10 usb tumbs? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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