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Video of ceramic storage system prototype surfaces online — 10,000TB cartridges bombarded with laser rays could become mainstream by 2030, making slow hard drives and tapes obsolete | TechRadar (www.techradar.com)

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Those totally look like the isolinear chips from Star Trek

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 years ago (9 children)

I've been seeing news stories like this every couple of years for most of my life, and yet storage technology just continues to plod along at the same pace it always has. Nothing ever comes of it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

It's a sensational headline, sure - but I manage a few 200TB single unit servers at work and my cell phone has more than 20x the storage the computer I took to college had, and probably 20x faster.

To claim what you are ignores the significant improvements we've seen in the past 2 decades.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Obviously I'm not saying storage technology doesn't improve. But it's incremental improvements, not exponential like these stories always claim.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

idk, I've still got some 512kb floppies somewhere.
Next to me is a 512GB flash drive.
1997 - 2023 is 26 years for a 1,000,000x larger storage device.
So come 2049, that should be at 512PB, they're forecasting 10PB.

I say it sounds reasonable enough.

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