FinanceTech has an article on 5 Technologies You Need to Know About that talks about holographic storage, a “technology that uses three-dimensional imaging to dramatically increase – nearly 10 times – storage capacity on a disk.

Seems this is right around the corner, even if it will not reach the mass market before a little while with prices like 8’000 to 10’000$ for 300GB at the end of 2006.

I always experienced the same thing with my computers: at buying time I thought “this hard drive is way too big, I will never use all the space I have”. This just to find myself scrambling to delete files a few months later. This should be history soon.

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