Comment on Cerabyte Ceramic Storage Poised to Usher in 'Yottabyte Era'
GenderNeutralBro@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year agoYes, the CeraByte web site is suspiciously devoid of any mention of rewrite-ability (or lack thereof). They just mention reading and writing. www.cerabyte.com/how-it-works/
More questions than answers, looking through their web site.
After a few minutes of duckduckgoing it, it looks like they are a new company still in the funding phase. They are due to present at the Storage Developer Conference later this month, but I’m not sure they actually have a product yet. storagedeveloper.org/events/agenda/session/527
In the abstract they focus on cold storage, but also mention “the ability to fully recycle the media”.
SandLight@lemmy.world 1 year ago
That’s not nothing though. Use cases like YouTube or archival work absolutely had a user case for read only
GenderNeutralBro@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year ago
For sure. Also, if the density is sufficiently high compared to alternatives, it could be objectively better anyway. For instance, a typical SSD is rated for less than 1000 full write cycles. So if I have a write-once media with more than 1000 times the space, I’ll be able to write more to it even in the worst-case scenario.
SandLight@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Huh, pair that with some quality memory for indexing and it would be a pretty good home backup device
LazaroFilm@lemmy.world 1 year ago
All you need is an electron beam microscope. Simple home setup. I don’t see this coming to home users in the near and semi- near future.
LazaroFilm@lemmy.world 1 year ago
In the film industry, long term storage of digital films is a real issue. Disney still creates a technicolor (3strip) copy of their films as digital data isn’t as reliable as good old silver emulation.
BURN@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Depending on necessary speed, Tape Drives fit that use case pretty well. This feels like it could be a slight improvement on that format, but it’ll entirely depend on density