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

  • Mossy Feathers (They/Them)English
    49•7 months ago

    At 10,000tb, it could have a latency of 5 minutes and it’d probably still be useful for long term storage.

    Edit: it’s also useful to note that it sounds like these are write-once, read many. That means for consumers, they might eventually replace Blurays, but they probably won’t be replacing your hard drive.

    • @Haquer@lemmy.todayEnglish
      11•7 months ago

      Yeah that would be the only useful use case. However I think with even a few seconds of latency I could deal with that for things like video playback since it would quite literally up my storage by a few orders of magnitude.

      • @r_13@lemmy.worldEnglish
        10•7 months ago

        Yeah it wasn’t so long ago that hard drive storage was more expensive than spindles of CD-Rs and that was around the time that internet and torrenting were taking off. People used to burn CDs full of movies to share and make room to download more. In that use case a unit of 700 MB on write once read many storage was useful if cheap.

    • BrokkrEnglish
      5•7 months ago

      Depending on price, consumers may be able to afford multiples. They could in theory use them until no space remains. This would be be fine for any data storage that people want, but obvious wouldn’t be good as your c drive.

      • @douglasg14b@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1•7 months ago

        I’m sure the plates are reasonable but are you going to be sticking a electron microscope in your office…?

        We’re talking about equipment that’s hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars in order to write and read from these plates.

        • BrokkrEnglish
          1•7 months ago

          I get your point, but the consumer version may not need to be as complex as an electron microscope. Additionally, there will be much more demand for these than electron microscopes. I’m speculating here, but both of these factors together could reduce the price significantly.