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@remindme@mstdn.social 14,000,000,000 years

Remember that CDs, CDRs, and so on were originally pitched as surviving 100 years. Turns out they last a highly variable 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.

Edit: Words.

I wonder what the read write speed is. Imagine storing your entire movie collection in a crystal the size of a coaster.

Might not be for home consumers anytime soon, article says: “In the next 18 months, the company hopes to have a field-deployable read device that customers can use to read archived data. But SPhotonix isn't presently targeting the consumer market. Kazansky estimates that the initial cost of the read device will be about $6,000 and the initial cost of the write device will be about $30,000.”

Then goes on to mention they need about 3-4 years of R&D so they can be ready to license the tech

A friendly request - please de-clickbait your headlines and say what the material is (although you do mention it in your summary).

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.

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.

Pondering my backup orb

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

Best prank idea: Put someone's browsing history on one of those.

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.

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.

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

Finally some worthy storage for memes!

Eat your heart out Ea-nāṣir.

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

But is it safe from the cats? 😼

glass shattering sounds

It will not.

Oh yeah? Well take a look at these Elder Scrolls over here.

Wait no, not literally! 😵‍💫 🔥

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

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

Time for some Horizon: Zero Dawn style Vantage points.

Is it rewritable to an extensive degree? If not its just a backup medium, not day-to-day storage. Still useful, but more disposable.