• iAmTheTot@kbin.social
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    8 months ago

    Another associated benefit would be the minimisation of data migration. The discs are said to be highly stable, with an expected lifespan of 50 to 100 years. That’s a huge leap over current data centre HDD based storage systems, which generally move data over to new devices every five to 10 years to avoid data-loss from ageing drives.

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      8 months ago

      This is also meant to compete with LTO tapes. To my knowledge, the current best is LTO9 with a max uncompressed storage of 18TB per tape.

      100-200 TB on a disc would be huge as they could replace 5-11 tapes with one disc and have better random seek times.

      Hopefully this does not end up like HVD which was promising but ended up dying due to the initial cost:

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holographic_Versatile_Disc

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        There are technologies being developed for data archiving that have densities and longevity orders of magnitude higher than this.

        I don’t see this ever leaving the lab.