Can't wait to replace my USB thumb drives with crystals.
this post was submitted on 12 Jun 2024
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I can't wait to see what a crystal hologram reader is gonna cost. :-p
I can't wait until holographic storage comes in spheres, and you have to bring it to an old Gypsy woman if you forget the encryption key.
The Eye might tell you, if he's in a good mood.
I myself welcome the era of orb pondering!
$7.99 a session and she will tell you the winning lottery numbers too
Forget the lottery numbers, I wanna know when I'll get laid.
You should probably just take the lotto numbers
I’ll have to buy the White Album again…
Babylon 5 enters the chat
Same ... but these are polymers.
Using the same principals of data storage on/in a large "single crystal" could offer way more longevity.
I really do wonder why it's taking so long for stone-striation storage to be a thing. We have proof that data will surpass 150m years through fossils, so why the heck did we think that flash storage was a good idea!
Hm, on the one hand this could be survivorship bias, i.e. only a lucky few scripts in stone have made it through. If you left enough of these glass discs or other modern media in very specific conditions they might also withstand thousands/millions of years maybe?
On the other hand, I think the amount of data and the corresponding resolution is important, too. If you'd try to store petabytes (or more) worth of data you'd have to carve really really tiny scriptures into stone unless you want mountains of stones just to save some bits of data. But the moment you scale your resolution up and your data engraving gets much smaller, you'll also get a much more error prone, susceptible system. So even stones with tiny scriptures would certainly not be able to survive millions of years (at least the vast majority of them).
This is true for stone and fossils, would this also be the case for crystal? I'm under the impression that their chain is pretty much set in stone (pun not intended), to the point where longevity would mostly be risked by cracking damage. Similar to how we see the striations of lightning strikes.
Could also definitely be survivorship though!
Didn't someone attempt to increase the storage of CDs by a similar multi layer tactic, tho not as dense, using different colour lasers to etch each layer? iirc it was just before or just as dvds came out
Not sure if this is what you're talking about but RIP the coolest media that never got to production https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holographic_Versatile_Disc
That looks like it, ty