Comment on 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

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• Tattorack@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This will never be for the average consumer. By their marketing alone I can tell you they’re pretty much exclusively targeting large data centers with this tech.

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  • onlinepersona@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    How big were drives 10 years ago? 20 years ago? 30 years ago? Floppy disks were big for their time. They held 3.5" floppies held a whopping 1.44MB in 1986. Average new phones have capacity orders of a magnitude bigger than that.

    You might need to take a step back and look at history before making such absolute claims.

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    • Tattorack@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      What does this have to do with what I just said?

      The problem isn’t how much data these can hold, but that they’re not rewritable. THAT is what makes them only useful to data centres.

      You can only write to them once. But they’re not like hard disks or flash memory where you can delete the data and write again.

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      • sir_reginald@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        people also have necessities like these. family photos and videos, music and movies ripped from their physical media and ebooks can all be stored in a read only storage device.

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  • douglasg14b@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Not even large data centers really in the typical sense.

    100% archival storage.

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  • capital@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I wonder how many people said that about computers back in the day when they were occupying a whole room.

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    • Tattorack@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It’s not a scale issue. But a use issue.

      I don’t see many people burning disks anymore.

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  • frezik@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Much to my frustration. Backing up a self-hosted NAS to 3-2-1 standards is difficult and/or expensive. I wish LTO drives weren’t out of reach.

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