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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)

submitted 11 months ago by L4s@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] Brokkr@lemmy.world 73 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (5 children)

It is possible to make glass and ceramics that are resistant to shattering from fair hard impacts. I don't know if that can be employed here, but there are other ways to deal with the problem.

Additionally, if 100,000 TB is something that people can carry by hand, then it is also possible to back up those drives relatively easily (relative to that technology).

Lastly, current silicon fabs have boxes of wafers that at the final stages can exceed $1M in the retail value. They have robots that handle those. If the 100,000 TB is worth something close to that, then a human will not be carrying it.

[–] StereoTrespasser@lemmy.world 21 points 11 months ago

You're not playing Lemmy correctly. The highest rated post must always be a half-hearted pessimistic lazy criticism of whatever new technology is being described.

[–] kamiheku@sopuli.xyz 20 points 11 months ago

then a Han Wo to be carrying it.

Who dat

[–] DreadPotato@sopuli.xyz 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Lastly, current silicon fabs have boxes of wafers that at the final stages can exceed $1M in the retail value. They have robots that handle those. If the 100,000 TB is worth something close to that, then a human will not be carrying it.

Pharma has entered the chat...they just have warehouse people riding forklifts with pallets worth much more than $1M.

[–] Brokkr@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I'm sure pharmacy has some crazy value density, but it's hards to put accurate values on their products because of insurance.

The boxes of wafers I was talking about is roughly 1.5 ft cubed. The fabs will have hundreds of these boxes moving around by robots at any one time.

[–] DreadPotato@sopuli.xyz 1 points 11 months ago

Not really, i work in the industry (in europe), and prices we use in the production facilities are actual selling value, not the ridicolous inflated prices you see on the invoice in the US.

[–] realitista@lemm.ee 3 points 11 months ago

Or just put the cartridge in a shockproof box. One that can last as long as the medium. It can't be that hard to make a really good box.