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This long-term data storage will last 14 billion years (www.theregister.com)
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"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."

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[-] Limonene@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

Remember Memristors? They're commercially available today, at 200 EUR per bit.

[-] rumba@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 month ago

wow, sign me up for a couple of dozen terabytes of that!

I also remember people burning pitts on scotch tape, then rolling it up and reading it in 3d :)

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