G.E. boasts of physical storage breakthrough; 500GB on a single disc

By on Apr 27, 2009 at 4:22 PM
News April 27, 2009

As Blu-ray finally begins to gain traction on a wider scale, G.E. is again boasting of a physical disc storage breakthrough with the potential to hold 10 to 20 times more data than a Blu-ray disc and 100 times more data than a DVD. This isn’t the first time G.E. has spoken of its progress in holographic storage research but the New York Times is now reporting the company has made a new breakthrough. G.E.’s technology encodes holographic light patterns onto in a disc and packs data far more densely than the optical technology used by DVDs and Blu-ray discs. In fact, the technology in its current lab state is said to allow for up to 500GB of data storage on a single disc. For comparison, a Blu-ray disc holds 25 or 50GB and a DVD holds 5GB of data. The key to G.E.’s success with this technology of course, is making it affordable — other companies will be introducing holographic storage solutions as soon as this year. InPhase Technologies for example, will soon introduce a specialized holographic storage system geared towards the medical industry. InPhase’s solution however, requires expensive discs and readers that cost tens of thousands of dollars. G.E. plans to show off its work at a conference in Orlando in May, so perhaps some light will be shed on G.E.’s efforts in making the technology a bit more accessible.

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  • tx26257

    David Thade is not 1st

  • http://iwuzbord.t35.com iwuzbord

    the last sentence was a horrible pun. :]
    but i think the technology is amazing.
    i cant wait to see it in action.

  • Verizon Guy

    They’re showing this off at a conference in Orlando in May? Maybe they’re going to debut this at WES because the BlackBerry Storm 2 will include 500gb of holographic storage!!! Take that iPhone!!!

    Yes, I make teh funnay

  • boogereater

    I wonder what load times would be like since you’d have to decrypt the data before being read… One of the problems with blu-ray is that the load speeds are horrible. Ask anyone with a ps3… Sucks.

  • wellington armelin

    Is it me or they are putting out things to fast a lot of people still hasn’t even move up to blu ray and boogereater yeah the speed on the ps3 is kind of slow

  • matthias

    i’m pretty sure sony has a solution in the pipe for ps3s.

    I just wish the fans would chill out when watching simple dvds.

  • T0F3R

    I think they’ll wait to get the speed in a reasonable range. One of the reasons that the Bluray speed is slow right now is that Sony had to release it to compete with HDDVD. Holographic storage won’t be in competition and there will be many flavors one of them being GE.

  • B

    Didn’t Samsung or TDK or some company already make a 400GB Blu-Ray disc?

  • http://Davidthande.blogspot.com David Thande

    LoL I have fans….I agree with the PS3…its slow…as far as expense…I haven’t really taken to Blu-Ray because the frikin’ Discs are almost $40-$60 bucks a pop! And I just “again” just started getting into buying Dvd’s of movies that I love….I’m aware that its a great picture but….its at this time an unnecessary expense.

    Where’s the info on the 9630 BGR!!!??

  • http://(null) Dayne

    Dang that’s a lot of storage for 1 disc…

    Posted from BGR Mobile (iPhone).

  • Roger A

    From what I have read on other forums, and media outlets, Hologram/Holographic Discs have already been around (testing, produced yet not marketed) BEFORE Blu-Ray and HDDVD even hit the market, think back 2004 and 2006. This is not anything new…

  • mike

    a single disc coming to market that can hold my entire hard drive… that is new and frickin awesome.

  • abcd

    How long would it take to burn 500 gb of data on that thing?

  • david

    I heard 9630 is being ordered by distribution center. Sku’s are in systems.

  • http://discspace tory

    Holy shitte muslium!! That is a ton of storage space.

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