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Memory crystals - ai_vin - 07-15-2013
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-07/uos-5om070913.php
http://www.dvice.com/2013-7-9/welcome-fifth-dimension-where-data-stored-crystals
http://inhabitat.com/revolutionary-superman-memory-crystals-can-store-data-virtually-forever/
RE: Memory crystals - radtech497 - 07-15-2013
(07-15-2013, 01:19 AM)ai_vin Wrote: http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-07/uos-5om070913.php
http://www.dvice.com/2013-7-9/welcome-fifth-dimension-where-data-stored-crystals
http://inhabitat.com/revolutionary-superman-memory-crystals-can-store-data-virtually-forever/
While this is certainly interesting in its own right, I see that this technology has a shelf life of *only* a million years or so. For really long-term archival data storage, I would prefer Hitachi's system, announced last September ( http://www.hitachi.com/New/cnews/120924.html ) that can store data for hundreds of millions of years and, as an added bonus, is independent of any particular operating system (it can be read with a suitable microscope).
YMMV,
Radtech497