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

  • sndrtj@feddit.nlEnglish
    60·
    7 months ago

    To all the naysayers: if the claims hold up this will be super useful for some industries. Example, I worked at a human genomics lab for diagnostics. By law we were supposed to retain raw data for a whopping 120 years. With a couple terabyte per individual for a WGS, the storage and backup costs were very much non-trivial.

    • DrMango@lemmy.worldEnglish
      191·
      7 months ago

      As a data analyst at mid-large corporation in America: please stop emailing me that the servers are nearly full. I need to store all of this to stay within regulations and you only give me one place to put my data outputs :(

      • Zoboomafoo@lemmy.worldEnglish
        311·
        7 months ago

        As a regular computer user: please stop telling me my OneDrive is full, I don’t even use it, I have no idea how it filled up

    • bionicjoey@lemmy.caEnglish
      5·
      7 months ago

      Yeah genomics research has this white elephant problem where the data retention for open science/publication is incredibly expensive for the ones doing the research.