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"the medium is silica crystal, similar to optical cable, it's highly durable. It's also capacious: The technology can store up to 360 TB of data on a 5-inch glass platter."

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[–] victorz@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

Would be cool as a backup medium. Unload a bunch of warez from my main disks, store on this read-only medium taking up very little space, providing a huge collection to my media server.

[–] bhamlin@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

Ridulan crystal v0.01

[–] baines@lemmy.cafe 1 points 3 days ago

and the winner is still paper

[–] arctanthrope@lemmy.world -1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

this isn't new, "making smaller marks on a rock" has been mankind's method for expanding data storage for thousands of years

edit - hmm, needs workshopping I guess. maybe something like: "over thousands of years, humans have refined data storage from its most primitive beginnings as marks on rocks, to its most advanced novelty, different marks on different rocks"

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