Post by @SorryQuick

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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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@ieatpwns@lemmy.world on lemmy.world Open parent

I wonder what the read write speed is. Imagine storing your entire movie collection in a crystal the size of a coaster

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@yggstyle@lemmy.world on lemmy.world Open parent

That’s the joke. The speed of a lot of these tech would require twice the time the data retention to write it. We can place atoms in order on the head of this pin and store 30 Pb. Write speed? 1KB/min

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@SorryQuick@lemmy.ca on lemmy.ca Open parent

Did you read the article? 30mbps is faster than a lot of people’s internets. It’s not fast, but for a prototype, it’s not bad.

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@yggstyle@lemmy.world on lemmy.world Open parent

You need to put the capacity into perspective with the storage speed. The comment I made simply highlighted the issue with an extreme example… For the reasoning provided. And as someone who’s worked with emerging tech before… 30 Mbps is their ideal lap time in a lab environment. Do remember that 100 Mbps is considered absurdly slow for networking. 1Gbps sounds fast but even those transfer rates move into hours and days for larger file transfers.

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@SorryQuick@lemmy.ca on lemmy.ca Open parent

This is explicitly stated to be for cold storage though. It doesn’t have to be fast at all. And they’re supposedly aiming for 500mbps soon.

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@yggstyle@lemmy.world on lemmy.world Open parent

They are at 30 presently. The “standard” is somewhere around 300-500 which, again, is acceptable for cold storage at the current tape drive size of 10-30tb. There are minimums expected as density increases. Cold storage / backup still needs this to be viable.

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@SorryQuick@lemmy.ca · Dec 16

I suppose it could be considered a trade-off? There’s the obvious advantages of longevity and possible size(?), it van still be viable in some niche uses where that matters. Github’s code vault from a while back could have benefited from that.

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