* Posts by almadenmike

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Boffins' 5D laser-based storage tech could keep terabytes forever

almadenmike

Yep. IBM's holographic data storage research had some significant technical successes, but interest declined after it became pretty clear that it would not compete with the improving price/performance of existing storage technologies. Here's a link to an article that sums up many of the challenges: http://www.techradar.com/us/news/computing-components/storage/whatever-happened-to-holographic-storage-1099304

Still, I enjoyed producing informative articles and dramatic photos, such as this one -- http://vig.extremetech.com/media/images/16655.jpg -- for IBM's research news reports.