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

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

  • cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    8·
    1 year ago

    Now if they could only make one that only costs a couple thousand dollars and fits in a full height 5.25" drive bay.

    • Tattorack@lemmy.worldEnglish
      74·
      1 year ago

      Why would you want that? This is, permanent storage. You write to it and that’s it, it’ll hold the data, and only that data, forever.

      This method of data storage will not be useful to the average consumer, and this company is hoping to replace hard drives in data centers for cold storage.

          • onlinepersona@programming.devEnglish
            3·
            1 year ago

            Photos, recordings, bank statements, pay slips, etc. all don’t change and would probably want to be kept for years. The average person probably has them all on some cloud service or on multiple devices (laptops, phones, PCs). Having just one drive to store all of that on that you can be sure doesn’t degrade until well past your natural life isn’t that farfetched.

      • cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        That would be a similar price and size as a typical tape drive. It would be used for backups and the ability to rewrite data would not be needed as long as the cartridges can have multiple partial writes.

        • Tattorack@lemmy.worldEnglish
          21·
          1 year ago

          Yeah, but this ceramic storage is literally lasers punching holes into a ceramic layer.

          • Terrasque@infosec.pubEnglish
            2·
            1 year ago

            And what do you think CD writers are? I’m not talking about rewriteable CDs here. Normal burn once CDs. You could write some files, then decide to replace a file and add more.

            Look up cd sessions. Until you finalized it, and as long as there was still free space, you could add, modify and delete data on it.