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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 (www.techradar.com)
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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

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[–] MeanEYE@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago (3 children)

I can understand needing this tech for court records and similar stuff. Even for libraries which desire to store everything in the world. But that's about it. I don't think many people go to old backups and see their old documents or code they wrote. Photos, sure, but even that is not a frequent thing.

[–] frezik@midwest.social 14 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Business have plenty of reason to use this. Backing up several terabytes in a proper 3-2-1 setup is expensive.

[–] MeanEYE@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago (3 children)

That's what I meant, for commercial use, sure. But not for private, ever.

[–] frezik@midwest.social 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I have a pet peeve when people are dismissive about things that are "only" for commercial use. Commercial is a huge market, especially when it comes to IT things. Almost every company on Earth can benefit from better backup solutions. You may not see them personally, but they help run the things that you use all the time.

[–] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 1 points 9 months ago

And commercial stuff makes it's way down to consumers all the time.

As an enterprise geek, I watch what we do trickle down to SMB every year... And then to consumers. Many consumers have similar tech capabilities as many SMB's. Just look around here, how many of us run segmented networks, with traffic filtering, numerous test devices and virtualization?

[–] OfficerBribe@lemm.ee 2 points 9 months ago

I very much doubt anyone expects this to be used for private use

[–] DrMango@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

Call of Duty: "... And I took that personally"

[–] Bread@sh.itjust.works 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

You clearly have never met a data hoarder before then. Some people just store things for the heck of it and if it happens to be relevant years down the line, they have you covered.

[–] MeanEYE@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

Guess I didn't.