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Now if they could only make one that only costs a couple thousand dollars and fits in a full height 5.25" drive bay.
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.
Why wouldn't it be? Do you believe nobody stores data at home that they would want to have for longer than 5-10 years?
The average person tends to want something that can be rewritten.
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.
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.
You had tricks on cd's and such to make it kinda work as read/write storage.
Yeah, but this ceramic storage is literally lasers punching holes into a ceramic layer.
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.