Rekall Incorporated@piefed.socialM to Hardware@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 months agoSPhotonix 5D memory crystal: cold storage lasts 14B yearswww.theregister.comexternal-linkmessage-square12fedilinkarrow-up140arrow-down10 cross-posted to: technology@lemmy.world
arrow-up140arrow-down1external-linkSPhotonix 5D memory crystal: cold storage lasts 14B yearswww.theregister.comRekall Incorporated@piefed.socialM to Hardware@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 months agomessage-square12fedilink cross-posted to: technology@lemmy.world
minus-squarecmnybo@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down1·6 months agoThe data is laser etched into fused silica. It will not degrade like CDs or DVDs. It will hold its data until something damages the disk.
minus-squareLudicrous0251@piefed.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·6 months agoUntil I toss it into my key basket and watch it get ground down to dust.
minus-squareBlue_Morpho@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·edit-26 months agoYeah and mass manufactured CD’s are physically stamped into aluminum and then covered in polycarbonate. In 20 years some new type of degradation might be observed and people will say, “Oh yeah, we didn’t think of that.” For example the etching could start micro fractures from repeated heating and cooling that happens over the long term.
The data is laser etched into fused silica. It will not degrade like CDs or DVDs. It will hold its data until something damages the disk.
Until I toss it into my key basket and watch it get ground down to dust.
Yeah and mass manufactured CD’s are physically stamped into aluminum and then covered in polycarbonate.
In 20 years some new type of degradation might be observed and people will say, “Oh yeah, we didn’t think of that.”
For example the etching could start micro fractures from repeated heating and cooling that happens over the long term.