"vizionvr" wrote:
They have successfully stored data on a small quartz disc that has the potential of holding 360tb for billions of years.
They can demonstrate that. Write 360TB on a small piece of quartz. Doesn't have to be Shakespeare.
But until we've filled the disc and reached the billion + year mark, who's to say, right? I guess we'll just have to wait 14 billion years, or, you know, accept the theory.
They cannot demonstrate that. However they can show its stable properties.
I'm just tired of sensationalist headlines. Is this even remotely practical? How scalable? How expensive? Does it require unicorn-grade engineering or materials?
The practice is nothing new. Articles like using DNA strands to store information. Practically, very difficult, enormous potential. Or writing text a few atoms at a time (which was more about, nanoscale manipulation, yet the media focused on some dumb thing). Ect...
It's all good tech, but not 'new storage technology', at least not yet. But it's based on familiar tech, so who knows, 10 years, crazy tech is always 10 years away. Nuclear, 20 years.
