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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 (www.techradar.com)
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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::Ceramics-based storage medium consumes very little energy and lasts more than 5,000 years, creators say

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[–] sir_reginald@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

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.

I know my family has old photos that they've been trying to digitalize because of the paper slowly degrading, for example. an ordinary hard drive can fail any time. this ceramic thing could be used instead, as it appears to be more durable and there's no need rewrite anything.

[–] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 2 points 11 months ago

Exactly.

So what if they're write once? If the capacity is high enough vs cost, then I just continue filling it up with incremental Backups. Knowing it's stable and massive means I just buy a new storage medium when it's full... In ten years.