"a 5-inch glass platter." Found the weak point...
this post was submitted on 14 Dec 2025
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Time for some Horizon: Zero Dawn style Vantage points.
Is it rewritable to an extensive degree? If not its just a backup medium, not day-to-day storage. Still useful, but more disposable.
The article says itis designed for cold storage of data, e.g. backups, or perhaps things that get written once and accessed infrequently.
"Statistics show that between 60 to 80 percent of all data which is currently stored globally is classed as cold data," said Kazansky. "However, because of the way that humanity is developing, because of all of the budgets and AI and so on and so forth, a lot of businesses historically have been like, 'look, we are just going to use hard disk drives or SSDs,' which are expensive, which are bad for the environment because they consume a lot of energy. They're non-recyclable. They fail often, but they're just easier to use. Through inertia, people have been using the incorrect type of tool for a use case that can be used with a different tool."
If a glass platter really holds 360TB and can be made affordable, it wouldn't really matter.
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So, you're telling me magnetic taps is not our real end solution? I'm not buying your new fancy ideas.
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.
Same for batteries.
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Meh…. Japan’s been pitching holographic data storage since the early 2Ks — at least —LMK when I can buy a magic holographic zip drive and I’ll be back.
I need this for my Star Trek collection!
Be sure they're real isolinear chips?
You mean porn, right?
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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.
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