Comment on Indestructible quartz crystal can store 360TB of data for billions of years
spankmonkey@lemmy.world 7 hours agoI’m asking why it would be more reliable if it has the same vulnerability to being corrupted.
Comment on Indestructible quartz crystal can store 360TB of data for billions of years
spankmonkey@lemmy.world 7 hours agoI’m asking why it would be more reliable if it has the same vulnerability to being corrupted.
deegeese@sopuli.xyz 7 hours ago
Checksums are redundancy.
spankmonkey@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Right, but if the checksum is corrupted…
deegeese@sopuli.xyz 6 hours ago
Yes Mr smarty pants, if all copies of data are corrupted the data is lost. More redundancy is more protection.