Researchers at the University of Southampton in the UK successfully stored the entirety of the human genome sequence onto an indestructible 5D optical memory crystal no bigger than a penny. The indestructibility claims are no joke since the discs can withstand temperatures up to 1,000°C, cosmic radiation, and even direct impact forces of 10 tons per cm2.

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    4 hours ago

    They say “billions of years” but that sounds like just the sort of thing a stray cosmic ray would ruin.

    Maybe they’re planning on using a checksum for error correction like they do with RAID.

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            10 minutes ago

            Use the checksum to correct the read, just like always. You don’t repair damaged ROM anyway.

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        3 hours ago

        Why would it be any different from the real data? Checksumming is basically just writing extra copies with math.

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          1 hour ago

          I’m asking why it would be more reliable if it has the same vulnerability to being corrupted.

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                8 minutes ago

                Yes Mr smarty pants, if all copies of data are corrupted the data is lost. More redundancy is more protection.