UK Optical Storage Roadmap.ppt

UK Optical Storage Roadmap DSNet-UK General Meeting Manchester 15th Dec 2004 Optical Data Storage Aim to “roadmap” optical storage RD within the UK. Will ignore potentially “disruptive” technologies in other areas e.g. increasingly higher capacity 1GB USB “memory sticks” 2 and 4GB “microdrives” (personal data storage) MAID: Massive Array of Inactive Discs (archive arena) It is artificial to consider “UK optical data storage” any successful research will have links with other EU countries and probably also Japanese and US companies/universities In optical data storage, there is a very strong manufacturing equipment base in Europe M2, Unaxis, ODC Nimbus, Dr Schenk, Ciba, ETA Optic, Singulus, AudiDev, Axxicon, AWM, Netstal, Dr Schwab etc Optical: State of the Art Blue-ray Disc Dual layer (BD-DL) 50GB/side, 4.5Mb/sec (1x) speed ,120mm disc could be bought in the shops in Japan in July 2004 Higher speeds are on the drawing board (2x, 4x) Quad layer (100GB/side) - will almost certainly only be WO. Holographic Media (Holographic Versatile Disc, HVD) HVD Alliance formed as well as ECMA Technical committee (TC44). Draft HVD specification underway 200GB/side, 30MB/sec, 120mm disc, WO format Due for sale in 2005 Optical Disc Capacity Optical disc (CD, DVD, HD-DVD, BD) capacities compared to HDD and development with time (1GB/in2=1.55bit/um2) Optical Disc Data Rate Separate out ROM, WORM (-R, -WO) and ReWritable (-RW) as historically, the factors limiting the data rate (and write or read) have been different Technical Challenges/Holy Grails The strengths that optical disc has and which need to be core to any new optical media are: Cheap to manufacture - low cost/GB relative to other storage media. Removable - low energy costs for large amounts of near-line data. Interchangeable - require strong standards. Often break down: DVD+/-RW format war, HD-DVD vs BD format war Backwards compatible (CD-DVD- HD-DVD - BD ). A new technology -such as holography, 2-photon or ne