SPhotonix 5D memory crystal: cold storage lasts 14B years
www.theregister.com
: SPhotoix moves its 5D Memory Crystal cold storage tech closer to deployment in data centers

“the medium is silica crystal, similar to optical cable, it’s highly durable. It’s also capacious: The technology can store up to 360 TB of data on a 5-inch glass platter.”

  • Yggstyle@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    12 days ago

    You need to put the capacity into perspective with the storage speed. The comment I made simply highlighted the issue with an extreme example… For the reasoning provided. And as someone who’s worked with emerging tech before… 30 Mbps is their ideal lap time in a lab environment. Do remember that 100 Mbps is considered absurdly slow for networking. 1Gbps sounds fast but even those transfer rates move into hours and days for larger file transfers.

    • SorryQuick@lemmy.caEnglish
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      12 days ago

      This is explicitly stated to be for cold storage though. It doesn’t have to be fast at all. And they’re supposedly aiming for 500mbps soon.

      • Yggstyle@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        12 days ago

        They are at 30 presently. The “standard” is somewhere around 300-500 which, again, is acceptable for cold storage at the current tape drive size of 10-30tb.

        There are minimums expected as density increases. Cold storage / backup still needs this to be viable.

        • SorryQuick@lemmy.caEnglish
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          12 days ago

          I suppose it could be considered a trade-off? There’s the obvious advantages of longevity and possible size(?), it van still be viable in some niche uses where that matters. Github’s code vault from a while back could have benefited from that.