5D-Glasspeicher-„Speicherkristalle“ versprechen eine Datenspeicherstabilität von bis zu 13,8 Milliarden Jahren, was auch dem Alter des Universums entspricht – packen 360 Terabyte mit einem Femtosekundenlaser in eine 5-Zoll-Glasscheibe
https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/storage/sphotonix-pushes-5d-glass-storage-toward-data-center-pilots
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Those certainly are some words.
Krypton tech
Just a matter of time before AWS offers it, AWS Absolute Zero Storage.
Ahhhh so we’re finally getting around to making all those collectable data drives post-apocalypses seem so fond of distributing to the most obscure places around the globe.
Nice to see humanity progressing!
5d is it me or did dimensions get changed. I get the arts don’t understand hence 4d is a 3d movie ffs but c’mon.
Sweet, can fit 3 Call of Duty games on one of these!
I assume this is a one time write, permanent storage process and not re-writable? Good only for static data.
Saw this on Mission Impossible
someone has already got doom ported onto it
Schemes like this have been announced over and over since at least the 90s and I’ve never seen one move out of the lab.
Isn’t this a somewhat older tech, just with a very high density?
I remember similar long term storage crystal hype from the 00s or so.
*took two seconds to find.
„Recording data using a femtosecond-laser was first proposed and demonstrated in 1996“ – wikipedia
another one of this glass storage tech story that goes no where.
Can’t wait to spin up a crystaldisk 🙂
We have been here before. And failed.
That’s not to say this might be different, but this time round, let’s take it with more salt please.
Not good enough. Need to also have off world storage in case of planet destruction
My MAME collection would love this but…
…I remember when we were told plastic would take millions of years to decay.. then came along the bacteria and fungi with fingers in *whatever they would have for ears* and a *watch this space* exclamation.
How long were compact discs supposed to last.. then we discovered the metal foil oxidises?
I truly hope GD² (Glass 5D Discs), or whatever name they are released under, last long enough to transcend universes.
What is 5d?
$30,000 for an femtosecond laser system sounds crazy cheap, especially as they’re systems that require +- 0.5 C temperature controlled environments
That’d be tight and all but this sounds a lot like the „indestructible compact disk“
Archivist here: I doubt it.
The problem with promises of long term digital storage is that all of it is theoretical, and there’s a lot more factors involved than the storage itself. What if you have a perfectly preserved ‚Memory Crystal‘ but no way to access it because all access devices don’t work anymore? What if the software to access it doesn’t work with whatever computer is common in 1000 years? What if the software to run the files within have the same issue?
The best data storage methods are often the most basic. We have examples of thousand year old papyrus, and assuming I know the language, all I need to ‚access‘ the data is my eyes. In fact, we have 15 year old USB drives in the same storage unit as the papyrus that are already broken.
would be nice but the thing is you need an extremely advanced device to read it too
They promised a lot of years for CDs as well. Most don’t work anymore
Finally enough space for Call of Duty
Reminds me of The Expanse.
I remember reading about this in Popular Science about 30 years ago.