Technology

Look if you can trade a little over a hundred isolinear processing chips for a goddamn space cannon it's gotta be worth it

I'm pretty sure that trope is 100% about being able to use the actors' faces while they're doing computer stuff. Same as why space suits always have lights inside the helmets, which would be an insanely bad idea IRL.

As a data analyst at mid-large corporation in America: please stop emailing me that the servers are nearly full. I need to store all of this to stay within regulations and you only give me one place to put my data outputs :(

It is possible to make glass and ceramics that are resistant to shattering from fair hard impacts. I don't know if that can be employed here, but there are other ways to deal with the problem.

Additionally, if 100,000 TB is something that people can carry by hand, then it is also possible to back up those drives relatively easily (relative to that technology).

Lastly, current silicon fabs have boxes of wafers that at the final stages can exceed $1M in the retail value. They have robots that handle those. If the 100,000 TB is worth something close to that, then a human will not be carrying it.

That’s… literally always a concern. Name a digital storage medium impervious to impact damage. You can’t.

Isn't that a concern with other tech too? If storage is cheaper, it would enable for more redundant copies

A lot of places just don't have backups. I'm thinking of hospitals getting hit with ransomware attacks, some are fine and just pull from backups and others shell out lots of money.

I'd love to see cheaper enterprise storage since it'll be easier to justify more backups. That single IT guy managing a hospital network could use a break...

Having backups at multiple sites is industry standard. Nobody is keeping 100,000TB of data in a single location.

As for your second point, I don't see the relevance. You can store the glass wherever you want, the other mechanisms aren't relevant for keeping the stored data.

But ceramic plates can probably be put into a working enclosure to get the data from it again

They have a video on their channel showing them bending and twisting the material.

I have been waiting for the results of project silica for awhile. The fact there are potential alternatives is very exciting to hear. The hoard is not getting any smaller.

The storage plates probably won't cost much, but the capabilities it uses to write to those plates looks extremely expensive and won't be fitting into your computer tower any time soon.

Ceramic drives have been in the news for a few years now. They have been edging towards commercial availability for a while. It might take a while until they become available to consumers like yourself, but it's not like nothing is happening.

This will never be for the average consumer. By their marketing alone I can tell you they're pretty much exclusively targeting large data centers with this tech.

I don't think this is rewritable storage, this looks to be permanent forever storage. So you wouldn't put this in a regular computer.

0, it's write once read anytime you feel brave enough to dig through 10000TB of data.

That's only 10 Petabytes per cartridge. The Internet Archive is currently sitting at 212 Petabytes.

Just wait. Triple AAA devs will find a way to make their code even less optimal so that way the latest call of duty or NBA games will be 5tb in size while also receiving 5tb updates every other day to fix bugs and add paywalled content and gambli- I mean loot boxes.

Call of Duty updates

I like to think of them as IPv6 addresses. You just don't.

At 10,000tb, it could have a latency of 5 minutes and it'd probably still be useful for long term storage.

Edit: it's also useful to note that it sounds like these are write-once, read many. That means for consumers, they might eventually replace Blurays, but they probably won't be replacing your hard drive.