Heh, thats what I was thinking, and if it came out on the market and wasnt entirely too expensive I think I would jump off the old fashioned band wagon for some better space heh.

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Well, currently the players cost some 12,000 USD and the disks 1,000 USD each, if I'm not mistaken (it may be more for the player), but prices will eventually go down, even though it may take a few decades.

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Wait, I don't think that we are aware of the situation yet. We're talking about Terabytes of capacity! If 4GB of RAM is more than enough for you (and the ammount currently limited by most motherboards) then imagine what a simple terabyte (1000GB!) would do. Not to talk about the game development industry! Games will have all the available resources to freely run and improve.

Of course that at the start, the main objective for this kind of memory will be for enterprise and professional purposes, I suppose.

But that's only the memory part! Consumer-level developments are already on the talk, and the first Holographic thing we will get our hands on in first place might be the Holographic Versatile Disks. HVD's, along with it's subsequent home entertainment and industry developments, will result in tremendous audio and video quality for home users and entertainment firms. Just think: one price does never come alone ; you'll probably need some high power equipment to support such high quality, but can't be quite sure about this part since I'm not into electronics. Just my oppinion.

To finalize, we sill need to think about the other storage that can possibly adapt this technology as well, such as Hard-Drives. HDD's are currently the 'Highest capacity storage' for our PC's, and if we get our hands on such a thing as (say..) 'Holographic-Drives', we can expect much much more than HVD's will offer..

And let's not forget about all the other devices that have memory too, like cellphones, etc. I think that's enough to think of..

 

 

 

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Thats alot of space lol, and if they are cheap (aka-100-300 dollars) which i doubt, but anyways think of all the hosting companys wood be able to offer, if someone cod say how much peeps trap17 has, if it is 3900 we could all have a gig each.... for a tiny lil disc, and if trap17 and other hosting companys had filled up a whole room with a server running on these discs, that wood be lotza space! They wood needa be ok to be in use for a long time, and computer running em wood needs lotza ram, maybe use 1 disc for ram, and but wow! thats alot of space, it wood take foreva to fill up one of those discs... u prolly need every mmocc in the world to fill it up... maybe more lol.

But how many users does trap17 have?

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Well, it would take awhile before they could be read-write, if ever, so they wouln't be used as hard drives for awhile.

And to that RAM comment, 64-bit processors allow for a few TB of ram, if I'm not mistaken. Problem is, we don't have RAM chips that big.

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We could make holographic ram chips, and who knows what they cood be used for, they may not be for pc's

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Those disks can hold terabytes of data i guess.. So maybe it would make us bid farewell to our Cds and DVDs..

But i dont have any idea about the seek time it would have. If it has a good seek time, then maybe it would be one of the biggest product to get introduced.

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It sounds really futuristic, almost ci-fi Iīd like to see it, itīs a strange concept. And yes, it also sounds rather expensive... but itīs all a question of time, I guess. In a decade we probably will be using this technology all the time.

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