26 ms·
Oh crap! Those holographic storage cartridges I've been expecting for a a dozen years have been obsoleted by a new storage tech that will never come to market e
by bigbugbag 11y ago
Oh crap! Those holographic storage cartridges I've been expecting for a a dozen years have been obsoleted by a new storage tech that will never come to market either.
Hopefully ibm will soon start to market their 3D write with lasers in gel like substance that will replace hard drives in ten years as they announced circa 2002-2003 .
Maybe not, and this new media release is no different than the others breakthrough storage tech we hear on a regular basis but are never turned into a reality.
What good would a media that last billions of years when 50 years later there is not a device able to read those discs ?
If a proprietary format then it will lack the documentation to be able to build a device to read the disc and interface with the computers of 2060.
If an open format and standard then how to keep the specs along with the discs as storing it on the discs would defeat its purpose.
Hopefully some investors will burn some money in this tech that will never come to light for consumers and will not keep up to its overhyped claims.
- ghshephard 11y agoAt least there is proven technology today [1] that lets you archive for about a thousand years. Store all your stuff to that, (and, of course, the cloud) - and then when one of these holographic storage systems with good traction comes online, dupe your stuff to that. [1] http://www.mdisc.com/mdisc-technology/ http://www.mdisc.com/mdisc-technology/
- iamphilrae 11y agoThere's actually already a medium that can last hundreds, if not thousands of years which could contain the spec for this device. Let me see if I can drum up a link for it. Ah, here we go: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book
- fit2rule 11y agoI've seen those used for all the things I could use a glass disc for. None of these things are of any use if the user can't read, or hasn't sustained itself, biologically, for whatever its digestion period is ...