Post #63462
2025-12-14 20:18 UTC
Replies (5)
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@Rhaedas@fedia.io 2025-12-14 20:25
If it's slow, then it's the central backup and you use anything else for regular use. Just having it as a fallback for recovery would be huge.
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@Zachariah@lemmy.world 2025-12-14 20:43
That’s cheap enough a small business could do long term backups for individuals and other small businesses.
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@yggstyle@lemmy.world 2025-12-14 21:33
That’s the joke. The speed of a lot of these tech would require twice the time the data retention to write it. We can place atoms in order on the head of this pin and store 30 Pb. Write speed? 1KB/min
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@boring_bohr@feddit.org 2025-12-14 21:45
In case you missed it in the article, the transfer speeds are mentioned just two paragraphs prior to the one you cited: Over the next three to four years, Kazansky said, SPhotonix aims to improve the data transfer speed of its technology from a write time of 4 megabytes per second (MBps) and read time of 30 MBps to a read/write speed of 500 MBps, which would be competitive with archival tape backup systems.
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@kalkulat@lemmy.world 2025-12-15 06:27
Manipulating the atoms in a crystal to store info is extremely high-precision, as is verifying the accuracy of the write). So is reading positions down to a few nanometers, But consumers wouldn’t need a $6000 reader to get, say, 10GB dumped to a hard drive … you’d carry your crystal and 16GB drive down to the corner store and user their reader to dump sector 37BJ to the drive. No need to trust them with your platter … but are you exposing all 360TB to potential damage from the machine?