Ceramics-based storage medium consumes very little energy and lasts more than 5,000 years, creators say

Video of ceramic storage system prototype surfaces online — 10,000TB cartridges bombarded with laser rays could become mainstream by 2030, making slow hard drives and tapes obsolete::Ceramics-based storage medium consumes very little energy and lasts more than 5,000 years, creators say

  • DreadPotatoEnglish
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    7 months ago

    Lastly, current silicon fabs have boxes of wafers that at the final stages can exceed $1M in the retail value. They have robots that handle those. If the 100,000 TB is worth something close to that, then a human will not be carrying it.

    Pharma has entered the chat…they just have warehouse people riding forklifts with pallets worth much more than $1M.

    • Brokkr@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      7 months ago

      I’m sure pharmacy has some crazy value density, but it’s hards to put accurate values on their products because of insurance.

      The boxes of wafers I was talking about is roughly 1.5 ft cubed. The fabs will have hundreds of these boxes moving around by robots at any one time.

      • DreadPotatoEnglish
        1·
        7 months ago

        Not really, i work in the industry (in europe), and prices we use in the production facilities are actual selling value, not the ridicolous inflated prices you see on the invoice in the US.