Kiss your storage woes behind thanks to a new technique that houses data in 3D.

Note: Unfortunately the research paper linked in the article is a dead/broken/wrong link. Perhaps the author will update it later.

From the limited coverage, it doesn’t sound like there’s an actual optical drive that utilizes this yet and that it’s just theoretical based on the properties of the material the researchers developed.

I’m not holding my breath, but I would absolutely love to be able to back up my storage system to a single optical disc (even if tens of TBs go unused).

If they could make a R/W version of that, holy crap.

  • TwilightVulpine@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    9 months ago

    I so wish we had some affordable, high-density storage technology that we could record and then forget it in the attic for 20 years.

    • Jojo@lemm.eeEnglish
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      9 months ago

      I mean there’s magnetic tape. It’s not, like, usable. But it’s also none too volatile if stored properly.