This is fantastic news. I'm glad to hear someone lives close enough they may be able to get in on the auction.
I was under the impression that all HVD drives had 1W 532nm lasers... They need to be able to split the beam several times, then still have it powerful enough to penetrate through several layers of plastic... Every press release I've read has said they contain a 1W green laser and a <50mW red.
The older systems used green, but the past couple of years they have mainly been focused (sorry about the pun) on using the 405nm blu-ray diode.
Remember, even though the beam may be split (not sure of the exact process as my buddy can't divulge it), it doesn't have to be very powerful, it's the concentration of power that's important and those data bits are very, very, very small, so it doesn't taken a powerful laser to do the job when the energy is focused on such a small spot.
If a 100-150mw blu-ray can write a DVD, it's not going to take any more than this for them to write their data when you consider the bits are many times smaller than those on a DVD writable disc.
Anyway, there might be some good stuff, but for sure there are a lot of high tech hard drive companies here in town (Seagate, WD, IBM and more) who will be at the auction too. Hopefully they don't put everything into large lots, I've seen that in the past; where you can't bid on just one item, they might be put into large lots of 100 desks, work benches or such. We'll just have to wait and see.
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