Ceramics-based storage medium consumes very little energy and lasts more than 5,000 years, creators say

Video of ceramic storage system prototype surfaces online — 10,000TB cartridges bombarded with laser rays could become mainstream by 2030, making slow hard drives and tapes obsolete::Ceramics-based storage medium consumes very little energy and lasts more than 5,000 years, creators say

    • @[email protected]English
      11•1 year ago

      This will never be for the average consumer. By their marketing alone I can tell you they’re pretty much exclusively targeting large data centers with this tech.

      • @[email protected]English
        1•1 year ago

        Much to my frustration. Backing up a self-hosted NAS to 3-2-1 standards is difficult and/or expensive. I wish LTO drives weren’t out of reach.

      • @[email protected]English
        5•1 year ago

        How big were drives 10 years ago? 20 years ago? 30 years ago? Floppy disks were big for their time. They held 3.5" floppies held a whopping 1.44MB in 1986. Average new phones have capacity orders of a magnitude bigger than that.

        You might need to take a step back and look at history before making such absolute claims.

        • @[email protected]English
          4•1 year ago

          What does this have to do with what I just said?

          The problem isn’t how much data these can hold, but that they’re not rewritable. THAT is what makes them only useful to data centres.

          You can only write to them once. But they’re not like hard disks or flash memory where you can delete the data and write again.