• LordOfTheChia@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    This is also meant to compete with LTO tapes. To my knowledge, the current best is LTO9 with a max uncompressed storage of 18TB per tape.

    100-200 TB on a disc would be huge as they could replace 5-11 tapes with one disc and have better random seek times.

    Hopefully this does not end up like HVD which was promising but ended up dying due to the initial cost:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holographic_Versatile_Disc

    • pearsaltchocolatebar@discuss.online
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      8 months ago

      There are technologies being developed for data archiving that have densities and longevity orders of magnitude higher than this.

      I don’t see this ever leaving the lab.