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A Roadmap for Optical Data Storage Applications
Optical products were once thought to represent the future of data storage, but their evolution has been slower than experts had anticipated. This article describes the latest progress in optical data storage applications and explains how these products must adapt to compete with other technologies.
The mainstream optical data storage industry is now approximately two decades old. At the time of its beginnings, optical storage technology promised much higher information storage density than what was available through the incumbent magnetic tape and hard drive technologies. Experts in the field began to speculate that optical products would eventually displace magnetic devices.
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