Submitted 1 month 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.”
this isn’t new, “making smaller marks on a rock” has been mankind’s method for expanding data storage for thousands of years
“a 5-inch glass platter.” Found the weak point…
I’ve seen this particular revolutionary technology come by about once a year for the past two decades or so, so let’s say I’m not holding my breath and I will toss this one on the large pile of “bullshit tech articles”
If it is so easy to write to, seems it would be equally easy to erase
Bro has never used a permanent marker
A little bit of rubbing alcohol and it comes right off
“easy if you have a diffraction-limited watt-scale laser” I guess
Intentional deletion is a lot different to entropy-caused bitrot
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?
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.
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
Anyone get the IO on this device? Cause I’m guessing its going to be less good than magnetic storage.
Darkness343@lemmy.world 1 month ago
All of this is useless because they can’t be used to replace an ssd
Bongles@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
I’m pretty sure I still hear of people using tapes for extremely long term but not often accessed storage. This sounds, just from the title, like it could be useful for that.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Idk about “useless”. But the way the article doesn’t seem to want to mention the read/write speed is definitely indicative of some drawbacks to the medium.