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

    • Tattorack@lemmy.worldEnglish
      27·
      11 months ago

      I don’t think this is rewritable storage, this looks to be permanent forever storage. So you wouldn’t put this in a regular computer.

    • MeanEYE@lemmy.worldEnglish
      112·
      11 months ago

      0, it’s write once read anytime you feel brave enough to dig through 10000TB of data.

        • MeanEYE@lemmy.worldEnglish
          35·
          11 months ago

          For some use cases, sure. Personally I can’t remember when was the last time I reached for old backups to dig something up.

          • bruhduh@lemmy.worldEnglish
            10·
            11 months ago

            *arr stack would disagree with you, storage of this tech and os on ssd would make quite good self hosted streaming platform