• iAmTheTot
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    394 months ago

    Another associated benefit would be the minimisation of data migration. The discs are said to be highly stable, with an expected lifespan of 50 to 100 years. That’s a huge leap over current data centre HDD based storage systems, which generally move data over to new devices every five to 10 years to avoid data-loss from ageing drives.

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      4 months ago

      This is also meant to compete with LTO tapes. To my knowledge, the current best is LTO9 with a max uncompressed storage of 18TB per tape.

      100-200 TB on a disc would be huge as they could replace 5-11 tapes with one disc and have better random seek times.

      Hopefully this does not end up like HVD which was promising but ended up dying due to the initial cost:

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holographic_Versatile_Disc

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        14 months ago

        There are technologies being developed for data archiving that have densities and longevity orders of magnitude higher than this.

        I don’t see this ever leaving the lab.