Holographic storage is the future... still.
HOLOGRAPHIC STORAGE IS HERE! We may have heard that publicity cry a few times in the past decade - in fact, holographic storage seems to have been 'here!' since the seventies, without ever actually... er, turning up.
In Phase Technology has been one of the worst offenders, proclaiming breakthrough after breakthrough in the storage world, whilst never actually heading to market. Well, now it seems the company actually has a product - the Tapestry.
Quite why it is so named we don't know, but the machine looks like a cartridge reader and the discs are CD-sized at 12cm, storing 300GB of data. Don't get too excited, though - the drive is priced at £9,000 and each disc is £90 a pop, which means it's cheaper to just buy disposable hard drives at the current prices.
Those with a cursory interest in what is almost certainly not the future of data storage can indulge themselves here. µ
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Bell Labs, inventor here, has tendency to resell every Product its ever marketed from ground up to unsuspecting or captured. Why not save $20,000.00 & Buy external Harddrive?.

AhSo agin, How about that Chap with 252 layer Blu Ray Disc(holographic too is blue ray)? Holographic seems to start out Clear Glass like surface & before its over, migrates to magnetic Floppy like disc-cartridge(perhaps disintergartion of complex disc?Surface with such HOT Light made it Not as plausible as sales represented?). Maybe this time bell Got everything right, except Price?
drashek
Yes, it's $18,000. But they have an awful lot of R&D to pay for. With it designed for archiving purposes, it meets the needs of it's current target market. However, if they are smart and proactive, it could become the replacement for blue-ray within 10 years. They are currently aimed at doubling capabilities every 18 months, and if the price is cut in half for the previous generation, we'll have 1.6Tb disks, with 120Mbyte transfer rates going for around $1100 (drive) and $11 (disks) within 8-9 years. By that time, it should be very competitive price/performance wise with flash storage systems. A generation after that would put it in range of a consumer level price that outperforms other storage processes.