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• kedean 12y ago
  Sure you could use an entirely different storage medium for backups, that's not my point. I'm saying that if someone happens to drop the disc on a carpet, that could be enough to erase big portions of data. It's not about losing whats on the disc, it's about the fragility of the media itself. I don't know much about the tech being used, but I could see it bordering on volatile if they're embedding that much information, and volatile storage isn't very useful unless its extremely fast. Who's going to store data on something that will erase portions of itself when dropped? Consumers won't, because they won't know what to do when their 50,000 movies suddenly start skipping ten minute chunks. Scientists won't use it because they want strong guarantees on retrievability, and won't want to bother with stringent protocols on handling the media when other options exist. Logging systems might have a use for it, if they can stand potentially losing big chunks of data.