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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Ceramics-based storage medium consumes very little energy and lasts more than 5,000 years, creators say

Those totally look like the isolinear chips from Star Trek

  • GnomeComedy@beehaw.org
    4·
    11 months ago

    It’s a sensational headline, sure - but I manage a few 200TB single unit servers at work and my cell phone has more than 20x the storage the computer I took to college had, and probably 20x faster.

    To claim what you are ignores the significant improvements we’ve seen in the past 2 decades.

    • Davel23@kbin.social
      4·
      11 months ago

      Obviously I’m not saying storage technology doesn’t improve. But it’s incremental improvements, not exponential like these stories always claim.

      • Froyn@kbin.social
        6·
        11 months ago

        idk, I’ve still got some 512kb floppies somewhere.
        Next to me is a 512GB flash drive.
        1997 - 2023 is 26 years for a 1,000,000x larger storage device.
        So come 2049, that should be at 512PB, they’re forecasting 10PB.

        I say it sounds reasonable enough.