Wireless Memory Cards

  • This memory card uses all the features of a typical flash memory card but combines them with wireless circuitry.
  • This enables the card to be wirelessly connected to a PC which allows for easy transfer of storage such as pictures.
  • Digital photography currently utilizes this technology but more uses are being developed.

 

wireless

 

 

     Advantages: 

  • Portability due their small convenient size.
  • Able to connect to any WI-FI compatible device like cell phones, camera, tablet etc.
  • Reasonable cost.

 

References: 

https://www.remosoftware.com/info/benefits-of-having-a-wireless-hard-drive

Holographic Storage

    • This type of storage seeks to combine two laser beams to create a pattern on photosensitive media resulting in a three-dimensional (3D) image.
    • It is being enabled with much higher density storage and archival capabilities.
    • The goal with this development it to store terabytes of data on a very flat surface – no thicker than the width of several CD’s.

 

how holographic storage works

 

Advantages of Holographic Memory:

  • Durable- If part of the medium is damaged, all the information can still be obtained
  • Efficient
  • Size of storage
  • Fast Transfer Rate- 1 Gigabit/sec

 

Applications: 

Data Mining- This is the process of finding patterns in large amounts of data. This is used in large databases which hold possible patterns which can’t be distinguished by human eyes due to the vast amount of data.

data mining

 

Petaflop- A Petaflop is a thousand trillion floating points operations per second. This fast access of extremely large amounts of data provided by holographic memory systems could be utilized in petaflop architecture.

petaflop

 

 

References: 

https://www.ukessays.com/essays/computer-science/applications-of-holographic-memory-computer-science-essay.php