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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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[–] sndrtj@feddit.nl 60 points 11 months ago (2 children)

To all the naysayers: if the claims hold up this will be super useful for some industries. Example, I worked at a human genomics lab for diagnostics. By law we were supposed to retain raw data for a whopping 120 years. With a couple terabyte per individual for a WGS, the storage and backup costs were very much non-trivial.

[–] DrMango@lemmy.world 18 points 11 months ago (1 children)

As a data analyst at mid-large corporation in America: please stop emailing me that the servers are nearly full. I need to store all of this to stay within regulations and you only give me one place to put my data outputs :(

[–] Zoboomafoo@lemmy.world 30 points 11 months ago

As a regular computer user: please stop telling me my OneDrive is full, I don't even use it, I have no idea how it filled up

[–] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 5 points 11 months ago

Yeah genomics research has this white elephant problem where the data retention for open science/publication is incredibly expensive for the ones doing the research.