It was only a couple of years ago that Call/Recall was proposing a 1TB drive and GE was suggesting it could produce a 500GB unit last year. InPhase had to be rescued after its long-lived attempt to get a 300GB Tapestry drive into production failed. Now here comes Storex with a 1PB technology. Are these numbers plucked out of thin air?
Storex Technologies was founded by Romanian scientist Eugen Pavel in 2007 and is, in effect, a technology demonstration looking for a partner to productise its intellectual property. Pavel is a reputable scientist and we are told that he "has done extensive research in the field of fluorescent photosensitive glasses and glass-ceramics.
Storex promises 1PB holographic disks
Posted on Tuesday, June 08 2010 @ 6:01 CEST by Thomas De MaesschalckThe Register reports a new storage firm named Storex Technologies claims its Hyper CD Technology can produce optical disks with a capacity of one petabyte (1024 terabytes).
