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A competing but emerging technology to keep an eye on is holographic storage. "IBM has already demonstrated the possibility of holding 1 TB of data in a crysta

by bb101 5y ago

A competing but emerging technology to keep an eye on is holographic storage. "IBM has already demonstrated the possibility of holding 1 TB of data in a crystal the size of a sugar cube and of data access rates of one trillion bits per second"[1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holographic_Data_Storage_System https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holographic_Data_Storage_Syste...

amelius 5y ago
But not rewritable.
- relyks 5y ago
  Magnetic tape is typically used for backup or archival purposes most of the time though, so that might not be such a big issue and they'll be used for a similar purpose
- adrian_b 5y ago
  That is a feature, not a bug, for long-term archival media.
normaler 5y ago
https://dune.fandom.com/wiki/Ridulian_crystal https://dune.fandom.com/wiki/Ridulian_crystal