Submitted 1 day ago by kalkulat@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/14/sphotonix_moves_5d_memory_crystal/
“the medium is silica crystal, similar to optical cable, it’s highly durable. It’s also capacious: The technology can store up to 360 TB of data on a 5-inch glass platter.”
Meh…. Japan’s been pitching holographic data storage since the early 2Ks — at least —LMK when I can buy a magic holographic zip drive and I’ll be back.
Every year or so some company comes along and announces some new storage technology that exponentially increases capacity or lifetime or both. Then nothing more is ever said about it and it never appears.
At one point we said the same thing about solid state drives
Same for batteries.
I need this for my Star Trek collection!
Be sure they’re real isolinear chips?
You mean porn, right?
Marina Sirtis has the sexiest collarbones ever on TV.
this isn’t new, “making smaller marks on a rock” has been mankind’s method for expanding data storage for thousands of years
Not if I have anything to do with it
So, you’re telling me magnetic taps is not our real end solution? I’m not buying your new fancy ideas.
and the winner is still paper
Well, in a way that’s true. You don’t need any specific tech or device to read it, just your eyes.
If someone dug this thing up in a billion years, will they have the device to read it?
Would be cool as a backup medium. Unload a bunch of warez from my main disks, store on this read-only medium taking up very little space, providing a huge collection to my media server.
Ridulan crystal v0.01
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Anyone get the IO on this device? Cause I’m guessing its going to be less good than magnetic storage.