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Video of ceramic storage system prototype surfaces online — 10,000TB cartridges bombarded with laser rays could become mainstream by 2030, making slow hard drives and tapes obsolete | TechRadar (www.techradar.com)

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Those totally look like the isolinear chips from Star Trek

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[–] GnomeComedy@beehaw.org 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

It's a sensational headline, sure - but I manage a few 200TB single unit servers at work and my cell phone has more than 20x the storage the computer I took to college had, and probably 20x faster.

To claim what you are ignores the significant improvements we've seen in the past 2 decades.

[–] Davel23@kbin.social 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Obviously I'm not saying storage technology doesn't improve. But it's incremental improvements, not exponential like these stories always claim.

[–] Froyn@kbin.social 6 points 11 months ago

idk, I've still got some 512kb floppies somewhere.
Next to me is a 512GB flash drive.
1997 - 2023 is 26 years for a 1,000,000x larger storage device.
So come 2049, that should be at 512PB, they're forecasting 10PB.

I say it sounds reasonable enough.