Durable data storage X forever

[Worthyness]

http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stori...227752/1/.html

TOKYO: As Bob Dylan and the Rolling Stones prove, good music lasts a long time; now Japanese hi-tech giant Hitachi says it can last even longer -- a few hundred million years at least.

The company on Monday unveiled a method of storing digital information on slivers of quartz glass that can endure extreme temperatures and hostile conditions without degrading, almost forever.

Pretty awesome o_O

[Sn1perJohnE]

Reminds me of Atlantis, with the crystals storing information and all.

[hadriel]

I saw that. But was reading about holographic data storage (assuming these 2 operate on different principles), and then I start to worry about read/write speed. 20Mb/s isn't a lot... (but it'd suffice for my usage XD)

Hadriel

[Flonne]

huh, I really thought the next big thing would be the bug protein coated disc storage, or greatly enhanced tape drives (though I heard some experimental tape drives can already hold up to 50TB).

This is pretty awesome, though, holy crap.

[Sn1perJohnE]

Tape drives? Thats like a step backwards though.

[Luxeraph]

+1 to protoss tech.

[KhainiWest]

...One piece...can last...forever?

OH MY GOD YESSS

[Shidoshi]

huh, I really thought the next big thing would be the bug protein coated disc storage, or greatly enhanced tape drives (though I heard some experimental tape drives can already hold up to 50TB).

This is pretty awesome, though, holy crap.

The problem with biological technology is that those systems are inherently non-durable and only work because they are constantly rebuilt by the cells. Even if those tapes contained the cells/bugs themselves that produce those proteins there's always the issue of resistance to temperature and shortage of substract.

[Flonne]

Tape drives? Thats like a step backwards though.

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/storage/wo...ge-system/1266