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The problem I see is what happens if the temperature doesn't stay in the required range for whatever reason like power failures, earthquakes, sloppy maintenance
by coldcode 10y ago
The problem I see is what happens if the temperature doesn't stay in the required range for whatever reason like power failures, earthquakes, sloppy maintenance - you lose the data. Having such an enormous storage that is so fragile seems to have limited usefulness. If they ever get it to room temperature and have it be stabile then it might be more interesting.
- stephengillie 10y agoWe already have a demand for very large, very-high-speed storage with in-memory databases. We already fill this need with highly-volatile RAM, and back it with more-persistent magnetic storage. From the article, this is seen as a replacement for persistent storage, for which it will need a lot more stability and temperature work.
- Sharlin 10y agoThere is an existing engineering discipline centered around keeping a lot of precious fragile data at liquid nitrogen temperatures for decades without malfunction. Say what you want about cryonics but the storage part is proven technology.
- ska 10y agoAs I understand it the tract record isn't actually that good.
- stcredzero 10y agotrack
- goldenkey 10y agoIf you're going to correct people, at least specify the correction unambiguously. Pedantry is uhpaulleng. http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/track%20record http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/track%20record
- ska 10y agoHeh, I knew that. I type "tract" too often for unimportant reasons. Guess it's in my fingers now.
- camelNotation 10y ago"Say what you want about cryonics but the storage part is proven technology" I've always wanted to say that cryonics as a field of study gives me indigestion. I would also like to say that all who study cryonics are villains and fiends. There. I said it. I feel so much better, thank you.
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- 0xdeadbeefbabe 10y ago> Say what you want about cryonics but the storage part is proven technology. Seems like a good beginning to a Crichton novel.
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- unchocked 10y agoPower failures of short/intermediate duration aren't necessarily an issue: liquid N2 makes a great thermal reservoir. In biology there's a fairly good track record of keeping samples cold (granted, mostly at the relatively balmy -80) for many years, generally without mishap. And anyhow, storage device failure is already considered inevitable, it's mitigated by replication.
- DenisM 10y agoRRR is the answer. Redundancy, Redundancy, Redundancy.
- the8472 10y agoNot a problem if you can move your data center to the kuiper belt, there it will be stable at ambient temperature.
- breischl 10y agoAs long as moving your read/write head around doesn't generate more heat than you can radiate away...
- Dylan16807 10y ago> power failures, earthquakes, sloppy maintenance Which could cause you to lose room-temperature storage too. Take advantage of the density and put your data into 6 data centers instead of 3. It'll survive fine.