| ▲ | wumms 3 days ago |
| Current write speed (No read speed given): Blu-ray (1×) ~36 Mbit/s
MS-Glass (single beam) ~25.6 Mbit/s
MS-Glass (multi-beam) ~65.9 Mbit/s
That's ~7-18 days per 120mm x 120mm medium (4.8TB).
Glass prices stable for now. Also, the authors make no statement about horizontal vs. vertical storage. |
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| ▲ | NitpickLawyer 17 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Thanks for digging this up. Every "scientists create new storage medium" is always a disappointment when you get to see the write speeds. This seems decent? At least in "raw" numbers there's nothing obviously making this useless. Let's hope they have a path to quick commercialisation and make it available. If there's any DC adoption will be the real test, I think. |
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| ▲ | po1nt 14 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | First CDs would take hour and a half to write with a laser. Once engineers take over the tech, it will might get faster. | | |
| ▲ | wumms 7 hours ago | parent [-] | | If they get the read speed up to a couple of GBit/s (~100x current max write speed), 4.8TB might be a good fit for 32k movies. |
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| ▲ | thegrim33 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Write speed is probably the least important metric for people that are considering something like this. After everything with storage and longevity is taken care of, improving write speeds is a nice to have, but not the important part. | |
| ▲ | stackghost 16 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | >This seems decent? Definitely. If it actually achieves those speeds it's perfectly reasonable for long-term/cold storage. | | |
| ▲ | Someone 15 hours ago | parent [-] | | Depends somewhat on the read speed, too. Extreme example: if that is one bit per year, it doesn’t matter that you can write stuff on it. | | |
| ▲ | dyauspitr 14 hours ago | parent [-] | | I imagine if you can use lasers to etch at that speed, you can use them to read at similar speeds as well. |
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| ▲ | Am4TIfIsER0ppos 12 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| > No read speed given Write only medium! |
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