I used to think we needed socialism everywhere to ensure all scientists of the world can be supported in pursuing every advancement possible. It's clear that China has already made that reality possible now to an astounding degree without needing many other co-socialist nations to make it happen. By being the biggest funders of science in the world, the brain drain is automatic. for many in STEM to be doing research at all, they have to go to China because there is little funding elsewhere.
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IMO it isnt even the funding, its the manufacturing infrastructure that makes any of it possible at any real scale.
yes that's an important part, once the research is complete you need to be able to scale up production which is also something only China can do, even more so than the research.
Finally, I'll be able to upgrade my mp3s to flac!
I'm stickin' with MP3s. Don't care what the socialists are doing.
Performance specifications reveal both the technology's strengths and current limitations. Write speeds range between 8 and 10 MB/s, while read speeds reach 50 to 200 MB/s. The drives are write-once media — data cannot be erased or rewritten once stored — making them unsuitable for active storage workloads but ideal for archival and cold storage applications.
Would be cool to have glass discs as a long-term storage media like some '90s anime GIF.
With 360 TB, I'd be torrenting everything in existence, keeping offline archives of useful datasets, and maybe start hustling copies of Anna's Archive or the entire Spotify catalog leak.
Since most media will never need to be changed, you only need to make sure to organize everything beforehand.
Even then, since the volume is so big, it seems like you could simply keep appending shit, even modified files, from one end of the disk, and maintain a database record of the current sectors containing those files and keep it on the opposite end of the disk, so it can also infinitely grow from the other direction. Or maybe append changes as diffs to the original data.
I wonder if there is a filesystem format that would be particularly suited to this, or if something more specialized would need to be developed.
Just freeing up the faster, writable NVMe space would be a huge win. Seems great for a NAS even with the limitations.
btrfs on linux, zfs on pretty much everything, and apfs on apple (CoW filesystems) already append new data blocks to the end of the drive rather than modify existing ones. obviously if this is gonna become a thing they would need to do it with the metadata too. the problem with that is the longer the drive is in use, the more metadata you have to read in to use it. probably easier to use a traditional drive just for the metadata.
besides that, cd/dvd/blu-ray filesystems are all adapted for write-once media. actually, they're purpose-built for pretty much this exact thing (besides the size of the disks they support). so never mind all that other shit i just said
My "National Anthem of the USSR" midi file I've somehow kept since I had dial up internet and Windows ME will be buried/cremated/lost at sea with me.
Same with me but it's a MIDI transcription of the Ryo-Ku-Bu OP.
Insert the data crystal.
At 10MB/s write it would take a year and 2 months to write all that. Oyi!
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Femtosecond lasers
L’ooooof you can’t make those small or cheap, so at best it will replace tape storage
I will invent a forced femtosecond laser 
They've gotten much smaller and cheaper. You can use fiber lasers now.
360T? That's all? Give me 360 PS5s and I'll build Skynet 