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As the old saying goes: What could a person need more than 8KB for?
32KB*
So your 8KB of data will last forever, but what about the firmware required to access it running on flash?
In 200 years, AI will hack it for you, but you’ll need a dozen antique dongles to get from USB-Z to A.
it does say it has a built-in serial console and raspberry pi
And the firmware inside that rp2040 is stored on plain old flash memory. So while the data may still be on the memory chip, the controller chip dies at just the same pace than every other usb drive - and then you can’t access it.
Will the chip actually last that long though? I would have expected a ceramic package with gold plated leads, not a plastic SOP-8.
what about physical damage. or emp or something. I feel like that will be a problem well before 200 years.
Mold is actually the biggest concern with the most popular archival format LTO. EMPs aren’t that much of a concern. Bit flips and bit rot are your main concerns traditionally when using flash for archival storage. It’s recommended if you go the flash route to keep your array hot (ie powered on) and use a file system with data scrubbing capabilities such as ZFS.
Is the ZFS header bigger than 8kb?
The other flash chip storing program code for the rp2040 will decay before then making the longevity marketing dumb
Why you should buy two! /s
The more you read is just gets wilder and wilder.
I’m admittedly interested now.
An actual book stores more data than that and for longer. At that point, why not just etch the data onto a metal plate or something? 8K is only a few pages of text at 12pt. It could easily fit onto two sides of a small-ish metal plate, etched in 8pt or so, and it would last, potentially, for millennia.
I think the idea is to improve upon this tech so the capacity would become larger.
It’s FRAM, which has been around for ages. The problem is its prohibitive cost— hence the 8k.
idk, its much more resistant to floods.
Than an etched metal plate?
Yes.
USB drives don’t mix well with water
Why do you say that? I’ve put several through a washing machine and gone swimming with mine. Electronic usually are fine with water. Batteries are not.
Just let it dry out before passing a charge through it, and it works fine. Not so easy with paper.
Not so easy with paper.
I had suggested a metal plate, not paper.
Why even invent the car when horse so much faster?
You wouldn’t use a car to race in the Kentucky Derby
I absolutely would
Maybe you wouldn’t
You’d make a bunch of jockeys mad
Fine, I’ll drive from the roof like a jockey
This can be rewritten many, many, many times.
What’s the practical benefit of that? If the point is long-term storage, rewriting isn’t a priority (or possibly even a need). And this isn’t designed for capacity.
I usually update my backups with new TOTP or other cryptographic keys every few months. Sometimes every few days (when I generate new keys).
It’s so I can exchange fart jokes with my great great great great grandson via a magic USB port a la The Notebook, assuming that’s how it works, idk, never actually seen the movie.
The year is 2245. The heirs finally locate a working, antique reader that can handle the ancient USB key, hoping to find great-great-grandpa’s crypto-wallet or the pin-code to a long-lost Maltese bank account.
Instead, they find a 4-bit, VGA-quality scan of Miss October.
I… think good old paper, metal plates and carved stones are better technology than this. Unless there is a way to store video and audio for that much long term technology, mechanical methods are far superior for photos and text.
You mean my 2GB Kingston that I bought in 2007, that I rarely use anymore won’t last me 200 years? Damn…
Somewhat better than this useless USB thingy (from Temu?)
Summary by Andisearch
Researchers have developed a new quartz coin that can store 360TB of data for 14 billion years. This is a significant improvement from the previous quartz glass storage, which could only store data for 300 million years. The technique uses femtosecond laser pulses to write data in the 3D structure of quartz at the nanoscale. This makes it possible to store the whole of human history in a small coin-sized device. The storage system is also very durable, able to withstand high temperatures. This technology could potentially serve as a means of archiving important information for future generations or even extraterrestrial beings.
future firmware updates are expected to include encryption features
Just use GnuPG. SMH
I don’t think that would fit.
I’m going to get one for my favicon.
What’s the favicon?
Then I said “I don’t know, what’s the favicon with you?”
Basically the only file that’s (sometimes) less than 8kb
The little icon you see next to a URL on desktops.
Nah I just wanted to see this guy’s favicon. I know what it is though.
FRAM module? Seriously?
Kind of hard to return this after 195 years if it fails.
Hopefully its open source and you get all the schematics needed to repair it
Just one small issue with that… I probably don’t live for another 195 years. :)
Oh, well, I mean your spawn
