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This long-term data storage will last 14 billion years (www.theregister.com)
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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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[โ€“] Davel23@fedia.io 7 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Every year or so some company comes along and announces some new storage technology that exponentially increases capacity or lifetime or both. Then nothing more is ever said about it and it never appears.

[โ€“] otacon239@lemmy.world 13 points 2 days ago

At one point we said the same thing about solid state drives

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