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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::Ceramics-based storage medium consumes very little energy and lasts more than 5,000 years, creators say

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

Normal people don't, but when you get into absolutely massive enterprise archiving there's no rival for the density and cost effectiveness. It sucks for general purpose storage, but for write once, hopefully never read use, they're ideal.