Post #63387 · Elektrine

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.

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@Davel23@fedia.io 2025-12-14 20:54

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.

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@ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.com 2025-12-14 21:29

Remember that CDs, CDRs, and so on we’re originally pitched as surviving 100 years. Turns out they last a highly naturally amount of time but potentially as little as 2-3 years before they degrade, depending on the construction. So I’ll just say, this is clearly a theoretical value.

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@baines@lemmy.cafe 2025-12-14 22:04

and the winner is still paper

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@arctanthrope@lemmy.world 2025-12-14 22:14

this isn’t new, “making smaller marks on a rock” has been mankind’s method for expanding data storage for thousands of years

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@wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 2025-12-14 22:58

This grinds my gears any time that a product is touted as lasting X time. Did you put it through a typical use case or scenario for that X time? No? Then you cannot definitively say that it will last that long. Based on their bullshit statement, I can last 7 years pounding someone’s ass relentlessly without pause for any reason. Trust me bro.

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@AbsolutelyClawless@piefed.social 2025-12-14 23:01

Time for some Horizon: Zero Dawn style Vantage points.

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@bhamlin@lemmy.world 2025-12-14 23:57

Ridulan crystal v0.01

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@asbestos@lemmy.world 2025-12-15 00:10

Pondering my backup orb

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@victorz@lemmy.world 2025-12-15 00:33

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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@sundray@lemmus.org 2025-12-15 01:31

Oh yeah? Well take a look at these Elder Scrolls over here. Wait no, not literally! 😵‍💫 🔥

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@AppleTea@lemmy.zip 2025-12-15 02:58

See, now this is the tech I would understand pouring billions into. Give every nation on earth a durable copy of the last 100 years of medicine, physics, biology. That’s what a reasonable ruling class ought to do.

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@ZoteTheMighty@lemmy.zip 2025-12-15 04:02

Excellent, I will catalog my journals of my metamorphosis into a giant worm on these.

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@ICastFist@programming.dev 2025-12-15 04:23

Waiting for the consumer reader and writer of those things, call me then

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@DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 2025-12-15 06:10

But is it safe from the cats? 😼 glass shattering sounds

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@Deebster@programming.dev 2025-12-15 07:25

“We are a technology licensing company” This is good news from the point of view of being able to create devices that can read these crystals; as a comment on the linked site says: The realistic lifetime of storage is the life of the last manufactured or surviving retrieval device.

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@TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2025-12-15 07:45

It’s amazing to see all the effort we all put in perfecting technology to long-term store our porn. 360TB? I’d like to order 2 please.

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@jordanlund@lemmy.world 2025-12-15 08:30

“a 5-inch glass platter.” Found the weak point…

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@ranzispa@mander.xyz 2025-12-15 08:34

So, you’re telling me magnetic taps is not our real end solution? I’m not buying your new fancy ideas.

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@probable_possum@leminal.space 2025-12-15 09:04

Good luck finding a reading device for it in 100y, let alone 14 billion years. I doubt there will be a human civilization a few thousand years from now. :) It’s OK to make fun of non-existing/ not yet market ready devices, no?

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@hardcoreufo@lemmy.world 2025-12-15 09:18

Oh good it can fit the next Call of Duty game.

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@Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2025-12-15 11:58

Finally some worthy storage for memes! Eat your heart out Ea-nāṣir.

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@sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 2025-12-15 12:35

How hf can you have 5D space within 3D space? This sounds like marketing bullshit. The 5D Memory Crystal stores data by using tiny voxels – 3D pixels – in fused silica glass, etched by femtosecond laser pulses. These voxels possess “birefringence,” meaning that their light refraction characteristics vary depending upon the polarization and direction of incoming light. That difference in light orientation and strength can be read in conjunction with the voxel’s location (x, y, z coordinates), allowing data to be encoded in five dimensional space. Oh, I get it now. It’s a five-dimensional mathematical space which is given by the three physical space dimensions plus the difference in light orientation and the difference the light strength.

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@nostrauxendar@lemmy.world 2025-12-15 12:50

Not if I have anything to do with it

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@Darkness343@lemmy.world 2025-12-15 16:22

All of this is useless because they can’t be used to replace an ssd

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@SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 2025-12-15 16:33

Denis Villeneuve nailed it years ago.

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@rumba@lemmy.zip 2025-12-15 17:05

prints article out places it on an overflowing, ancient pile of documents of promising, science proved data storage methods that haven’t made it to public use yet

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@xia@lemmy.sdf.org 2025-12-15 17:29

…but only one million years into it’s life span the human race is gone and aliens are unwittingly melting them down for raw material.

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@Jarix@lemmy.world 2025-12-15 17:58

Permanent storage. Like the Wayback massive and internet archive I hope will fully take advantage of these. As well as project Gutenberg. So much else. I’ve been waiting for something like this for a long time

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@A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 2025-12-15 18:26

and just like every other storage medium, it will last for eons…and die about .5 femtoseconds before you have a critical need to pull data off.

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@Sarothazrom@lemmy.world 2025-12-15 18:42

It will not.

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@Raxiel@lemmy.world 2025-12-15 21:06

Open AI just bought out all the glass platter production. Not only will consumers not be able to store their data for 14gy, they won’t have anywhere to set down their drinks either

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@UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2025-12-15 22:35

Anyone get the IO on this device? Cause I’m guessing its going to be less good than magnetic storage.

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@Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 2025-12-16 08:20

If it is so easy to write to, seems it would be equally easy to erase

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