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@kalkulat@lemmy.world on lemmy.world Open parent

“the medium is silica crystal, similar to optical cable, it’s highly durable. It’s also capacious: The technology can store up to 360 TB of data on a 5-inch glass platter.”

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@ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.com on lemmynsfw.com Open parent

Remember that CDs, CDRs, and so on we’re originally pitched as surviving 100 years. Turns out they last a highly naturally amount of time but potentially as little as 2-3 years before they degrade, depending on the construction. So I’ll just say, this is clearly a theoretical value.

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@smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.works on sh.itjust.works Open parent

How can you be so sure they haven’t already done durability testing??

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@BrightCandle@lemmy.world on lemmy.world Open parent

Because they weren’t invented in 1925? Any durability testing you do today is about assumptions where you accelerate the process for a year by heating it or exposing it to water or whatever will degrade it most to some factor above normal and then extrapolate. That extrapolation was wildly wrong with CDs and it could be with this medium too. Or it might last a lot longer. What they have not done is written to a bunch of them and stored them in a variety of ways for 100 years and concluded they last that long.

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@smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.works on sh.itjust.works Open parent

Oh, I see the confusion. I was talking about the new media in the article, not CDs.

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JustAnotherKay in !technology

@JustAnotherKay@lemmy.world · Dec 15

So… so are they. The new media has not yet been tested for 100 years because they were not invented 100 years ago

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