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
Just wait until one of your techs drops a cassette of these glass and ceramic plates and suddenly your company is out 100,000TB of data.
The whole “it can last 5000 years” thing is somewhat ridiculous considering the library mechanisms, carriers for the slides and basically everything else not glass and ceramic probably won’t last more than 20 or 30.
It is possible to make glass and ceramics that are resistant to shattering from fair hard impacts. I don’t know if that can be employed here, but there are other ways to deal with the problem.
Additionally, if 100,000 TB is something that people can carry by hand, then it is also possible to back up those drives relatively easily (relative to that technology).
Lastly, current silicon fabs have boxes of wafers that at the final stages can exceed $1M in the retail value. They have robots that handle those. If the 100,000 TB is worth something close to that, then a human will not be carrying it.
You’re not playing Lemmy correctly. The highest rated post must always be a half-hearted pessimistic lazy criticism of whatever new technology is being described.
Or just put the cartridge in a shockproof box. One that can last as long as the medium. It can’t be that hard to make a really good box.
possible to make glass and ceramics that are resistant to shattering from fair hard impacts.
As far as I know, there is 1 storage technology that has survived wars. Paper.
Say that to the library of Alexandria.
Paper is notoriously easy to destroy in conflicts
Yes, but paper isn’t information dense and is highly susceptible to even the smallest amount of moisture in the air.
That’s… literally always a concern. Name a digital storage medium impervious to impact damage. You can’t.
Having backups at multiple sites is industry standard. Nobody is keeping 100,000TB of data in a single location.
As for your second point, I don’t see the relevance. You can store the glass wherever you want, the other mechanisms aren’t relevant for keeping the stored data.
But ceramic plates can probably be put into a working enclosure to get the data from it again
Just like how if you put a shattered CD in an apparatus, you can still use a laser reader to recover any data on the undamaged sections.
Though, because data is recorded in a circular pattern at high speeds, you won’t get much. Or what you get will have lots of corruption. I wonder what pattern of storage these plates use? If it’s similar to SSDs, then large files can be nested in a very small area of space - increasing the chances of recovery.
They have a video on their channel showing them bending and twisting the material.
Something I sometimes think about is how much of humanity’s history is just like, gone. Completely forgotten to time. Great works of art that’ll never be seen. Amazing compositions that’ll never again be heard. An uncalculable number of lifetimes reduced to nothing more than food for the dirt.
The proposition that we could store vast amounts of our current experience on archival slabs and preserve it all far into our distant future is incredibly exciting to me. It wouldn’t only allow us to indefinitely preserve all of these incredible works of art our modern world has enabled. But would also allow us to more effectively learn from our collective societal mistakes. It would hopefully be more difficult to ignore our past foibles when we keep such detailed receipts… Hopefully.
If not at least they’ll have SpongeBob in 7023 to distract from the cyber-nazis.
The proposition that we could store vast amounts of our current experience on archival slabs and preserve it all far into our distant future is incredibly exciting to me.
We’re currently one Carrington Event away from losing a huge amount of the history of the last 20 years. Not to mention all of the things from previous years that were archived from originals that no longer exist.
Yeah but in about 10 years it will be replaced by something even better and they’ll stop making the readers for it.
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Likely not that ceramic. Ceramic has a pretty loose definition, see: “ceramic cookware”
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I know it was said before in previous decades as storage evolved, but: How the fuck, do you eve fill these up?
Just wait. Triple AAA devs will find a way to make their code even less optimal so that way the latest call of duty or NBA games will be 5tb in size while also receiving 5tb updates every other day to fix bugs and add paywalled content and gambli- I mean loot boxes.
That’s only 10 Petabytes per cartridge. The Internet Archive is currently sitting at 212 Petabytes.
I like to think of them as IPv6 addresses. You just don’t.
Call of Duty updates
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We’ll find a way, trust me. Its just an exuse for ever more detailed data.
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Why would they be harder to fill up in the evening? /s
Then a court comes and orders some deletion … :-)
Removal is probably possible by just burning trash over real data. But identifying what needs to be burned. Ouch.
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Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway
Normal people don’t, but when you get into absolutely massive enterprise archiving there’s no rival for the density and cost effectiveness. It sucks for general purpose storage, but for write once, hopefully never read use, they’re ideal.
Everyone, for cold storage. There’s no cheaper, denser and more reliable option available.
I can understand needing this tech for court records and similar stuff. Even for libraries which desire to store everything in the world. But that’s about it. I don’t think many people go to old backups and see their old documents or code they wrote. Photos, sure, but even that is not a frequent thing.
You clearly have never met a data hoarder before then. Some people just store things for the heck of it and if it happens to be relevant years down the line, they have you covered.
Guess I didn’t.
