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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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[–] Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 2 days ago (7 children)

Is it rewritable to an extensive degree? If not its just a backup medium, not day-to-day storage. Still useful, but more disposable.

[–] candyman337@lemmy.world 21 points 2 days ago (4 children)

This is the type of thing that would be used for storage of essential human data rather than for general data backups I think

[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 26 points 2 days ago (1 children)
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