360TB drive...

First off:

HOLY CRAP.

Second off:

I'm pretty sure if archaeologists today found some sort of huge library of ancient information from, say 4-6000 years ago, they would be pretty excited and study the hell out of it! So having 360TB of porno :CAUGH: I MEAN DATA saved to an eternal drive is not exactly a fruitless endeavour...
 
Reminds me of M-DISC. Here's a 2015 review of M-DISC after it's been on the market for a few years (you can get them on Amazon).

The main concern for any archival strategy is compatibility. Do you have a device that can read the data off a 5 1/4" floppy disc? Those have only been obsolete for a few decades, and they were ubiquitous for their time. M-DISC is by no means ubiquitous (I bet you've never even heard of it) and this memory crystal is meant for organizations with large archives - a rather rarefied market.

There will be very few reader devices - to not be "few" in a context of even 100 years I'm talking about at least a billion - and very few technicians with enough technical skill and resources to maintain, repair and manufacture new readers.
 
I wonder what ever happened to the mass density grain of sand sized crystal storage that was developed in Iran like 10 years ago shown places like Discovery channel. Must've been too good to be true.
 
KazeoHin said:
First off:

HOLY CRAP.

Second off:

I'm pretty sure if archaeologists today found some sort of huge library of ancient information from, say 4-6000 years ago, they would be pretty excited and study the hell out of it! So having 360TB of porno :CAUGH: I MEAN DATA saved to an eternal drive is not exactly a fruitless endeavour...
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HEY! We can't loose that beauty! Everyone has a right to enjoy that kind of beauty. It must be shared!!! Image Barbra Eden being forgotten NOOOOOO

*Evilsofa...I doubt having a technology that is 100s of years old would be a challenge to remake....replicator *cough*
 
Did Barbra Eden ever show her boobs? But, yes she was hot, like Farah Fawcet.
 
Gomar said:
Did Barbra Eden ever show her boobs? But, yes she was hot, like Farah Fawcet.
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as far as I know only one shot exists and you can see like half the nip. It was a photo supposedly sold at some auction. If there are more than that one single photo I have never seen them :/
 
didn't they also claim CD's and DVD;s can last for ages and ages.. which was soon proven wrong once that time frame started to pass...

as noted above the issue will be compatible reader or tech still around in that time, i think humans will be dead and gone long before that crystal expires..
 
MrGuvernment said:
didn't they also claim CD's and DVD;s can last for ages and ages.. which was soon proven wrong once that time frame started to pass...

as noted above the issue will be compatible reader or tech still around in that time, i think humans will be dead and gone long before that crystal expires..
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thats what everyone says every century. Yet we are still here. Our existence is at a whim no way to know. Could last forever until we ascend like the ancients :p or when the universe ends or when jesus comes back or in 20 years in the next nuclear holocaust.

I still think the read issue is a joke. Unless something happens like the dark ages that will never be an issue. remaking old tech will not be hard.
 
SomeGuy133 said:
I still think the read issue is a joke. Unless something happens like the dark ages that will never be an issue. remaking old tech will not be hard.
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If your talking about national interest sure, but at a personal level it's going to get much harder. Think about formats that are only 20-30 years old and already becoming hard to playback. Getting data, not music, off a Minidisc. There were Minidisc data drives. The Capacitive Electronic Discharge (CED) format that came before Laserdisc. Finding players is getting harder. Even getting AC-3 off a Laserdisc is becoming harder and harder. And these are not old technologies.
 
westrock2000 said:
If your talking about national interest sure, but at a personal level it's going to get much harder. Think about formats that are only 20-30 years old and already becoming hard to playback. Getting data, not music, off a Minidisc. There were Minidisc data drives. The Capacitive Electronic Discharge (CED) format that came before Laserdisc. Finding players is getting harder. Even getting AC-3 off a Laserdisc is becoming harder and harder. And these are not old technologies.
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and thats where a market can come into play. I bet there is some company with the right stuff that can access the drives for you...at a price of course :D

Again making it isn't an issue...it is whether or not the price to make it is worth it to people...a technological barrier is not the problem.
 
i wonder when i can buy this :( I having bluraty collection which is 40TB and i think it already huge, but compare to this 360TB...
 
justbenice said:
i wonder when i can buy this :( I having bluraty collection which is 40TB and i think it already huge, but compare to this 360TB...
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I do not expect to see a 360 TB version of this in the next decade. You probably will have a better chance to see 50TB HAMR drives.
 
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