Microsoft Project Silica quartz glass storage passes milestone
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Microsoft and Warner Bros have stored the Superman (1978) movie on the durable medium.
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No more floppy disks, now we have floppy glass :-)
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What happens when someone drops it and it shatters? Whats data recovery like then?
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Kanoe
What happens when someone drops it and it shatters? Whats data recovery like then?
Depends on the glue you use to put it back together (just joking)
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It feels like we've skewed into an alternate timeline, in which this was the next development in storage after single-burn DVDs... and in which Biff is corrupt, and powerful, and married to your mother.
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Kanoe
What happens when someone drops it and it shatters? Whats data recovery like then?
Same as if someone drops a hard drive platter, big f*** off jigsaw puzzle on a miniature scale.
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Kanoe
What happens when someone drops it and it shatters? Whats data recovery like then?
You could possibly use a thin film like a screen protector on the plates so that, if they do shatter, they hold together in one piece. The it'd just be a question of whether the fractures destroyed enough of these 'voxels' to prevent the built in ECC reconstructing the data.
It's an archive medium, so it's not meant to be handled - it's meant to be put in a box and forgotten about...
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Ttaskmaster
It feels like we've skewed into an alternate timeline, in which this was the next development in storage after single-burn DVDs... and in which Biff is corrupt, and powerful, and married to your mother.
Rewriteability just isn't a requirement for archiving. Density and durability are, both of which this smashes. Current long term high density archive storage media is (drum roll)... magnetic tape. So a world where dvds had already taken over tape would be a more advanced version than our own. So whatever biff does to your mother is their business!
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EN1R0PY
Rewriteability just isn't a requirement for archiving. Density and durability are, both of which this smashes. Current long term high density archive storage media is (drum roll)... magnetic tape. So a world where dvds had already taken over tape would be a more advanced version than our own. So whatever biff does to your mother is their business!
Well, our data centres are all using DVDs, for addressable retrieval, and this seems equally fragile which was my point... and I'm guessing you missed the BTTF reference.
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DNA storage is way denser, and incredibly durable. Currently costs quite a lot to write though..
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kalniel
DNA storage is way denser, and incredibly durable. Currently costs quite a lot to write though..
But if you accidentally ingest the DNA storage medium, you run the risk of your data mutating you ;-)
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KultiVator
But if you accidentally ingest the DNA storage medium, you run the risk of your data mutating you ;-)
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kalniel
DNA storage is way denser, and incredibly durable. Currently costs quite a lot to write though..
But if you accidentally ingest the DNA storage medium, you run the risk of your data mutating you ;-)
You eat DNA all the time, if it was capable of mutating you I'm pretty sure you'd be doing photosynthesis by now.
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Glyce
You eat DNA all the time, if it was capable of mutating you I'm pretty sure you'd be doing photosynthesis by now.
Not just any old DNA... those things are DNA voxels ;-)
Anyhow, who's to say it's not chlorophyl running through my veins?
Don't worry, I'm a man of science... I just have a kooky sense of humour!
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Kanoe
What happens when someone drops it and it shatters? Whats data recovery like then?
Well hard drives don't really like bouncing either and film is sensitive to many environmental factors, there are always weaknesses.
The archive solution is to store multiple copies in different locations as they do already.
