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Durable data storage X forever - Worthyness - 2012-09-24
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_world_business/view/1227752/1/.html
Quote: TOKYO: As Bob Dylan and the Rolling Stones prove, good music lasts a long time; now Japanese hi-tech giant Hitachi says it can last even longer -- a few hundred million years at least.
The company on Monday unveiled a method of storing digital information on slivers of quartz glass that can endure extreme temperatures and hostile conditions without degrading, almost forever.
Pretty awesome o_O
Durable data storage X forever - Sn1perJohnE - 2012-09-24
Reminds me of Atlantis, with the crystals storing information and all.
Durable data storage X forever - hadriel - 2012-09-24
I saw that. But was reading about holographic data storage (assuming these 2 operate on different principles), and then I start to worry about read/write speed. 20Mb/s isn't a lot... (but it'd suffice for my usage XD)
Hadriel
Durable data storage X forever - Flonne - 2012-09-24
huh, I really thought the next big thing would be the bug protein coated disc storage, or greatly enhanced tape drives (though I heard some experimental tape drives can already hold up to 50TB).
This is pretty awesome, though, holy crap.
Durable data storage X forever - Sn1perJohnE - 2012-09-25
Tape drives? Thats like a step backwards though.
Durable data storage X forever - Luxeraph - 2012-09-25
+1 to protoss tech.
Durable data storage X forever - KhainiWest - 2012-09-25
...One piece...can last...forever?
OH MY GOD YESSS
Durable data storage X forever - Shidoshi - 2012-09-25
Flonne Wrote:huh, I really thought the next big thing would be the bug protein coated disc storage, or greatly enhanced tape drives (though I heard some experimental tape drives can already hold up to 50TB).
This is pretty awesome, though, holy crap.
The problem with biological technology is that those systems are inherently non-durable and only work because they are constantly rebuilt by the cells. Even if those tapes contained the cells/bugs themselves that produce those proteins there's always the issue of resistance to temperature and shortage of substract.
Durable data storage X forever - Flonne - 2012-09-25
Sn1perJohnE Wrote:Tape drives? Thats like a step backwards though.
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/storage/worlds-1st-exabyte-storage-system/1266