5D glass storage 'memory crystals' promise up to 13.8 billion years of data storage resilience & crams 360 terabytes into 5-inch glass disc with femtosecond laser.
https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/storage/sphotonix-pushes-5d-glass-storage-toward-data-center-pilots
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BestBouclettes@jlai.lu · 13 pts · 239d
The thing is, storing data is actually pretty easy, reading it is hard
RodgeGrabTheCat@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 239d
360TB at 4MBps. I do not want to know how long that will take. Pretty cool though, reminds me of the crystal technology they have on Stargate.
BB84@mander.xyz · 4 pts · 239d
3 years to fill the whole thing
leavemealone@sh.itjust.works · 12 pts · 239d
How many hours of po...pular 4k videos can you put on it?
curbstickle@anarchist.nexus · 4 pts · 239d
Streaming quality will allow for more, production for bluray would be less.
Figure around 8GB per hour streaming, UHD at 60fps and with HDR it'll be more like 45-60GB/hr, let's call it 50GB/hr for estimation.
With streaming quality, it'll be roughly 45000 hours, and at a much higher bluray UHD HDR encode quality, its about 7200 hours. Roughly.
CellarRat@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 239d
If I did my math right and assuming 35Mb/s bitrate (4.5MB/s) you can probably fit around 2.5 years worth of your po...pular media of your choice
three_trains_in_a_trenchcoat@piefed.social · 2 pts · 239d
So this would be really neat for an Apollo (H:ZD) style repository of knowledge in case of global civilizational collapse. I'd love to give the people three hundred years down the road a hand and help them build solar panels and make penicillin. I'd love to share our stories with them, or at least leave them a copy of Bill Wurtz's History of the Entire World, I Guess. This seems like a great use case for that, only the question I keep coming back to is "how do we tell them how to read it?"
"First, make a computer"? After global civilizational collapse?
And before anyone says books, let me point you to the Library of Alexandria, Nalanda University (it's said the university smoldered for a month after the mongols torched it), and the Bronze Age Collapse. Fire and Water have a way of making books disappear, this at least seems far more durable and much more information dense.
Lembot_0006@programming.dev · 2 pts · 239d
15 billion years is quite ok, actually.
crank0271@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 238d
Come on, Verbatim. Let's get cracking on those disks.
WanderingThoughts@europe.pub · 1 pts · 239d
Basically the same as project Silica. Microsoft has been working on that since 2017.