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Chinese researchers indicate diamonds can store data for millions of years

by ms7892 on 11/30/2024, 3:23:39 PM with 12 comments
  • by leftbit on 11/30/2024, 4:17:40 PM

    Makes me wonder how much information from prehistoric civilizations got lost by cutting up their libraries into wedding rings...

  • by rig666 on 11/30/2024, 5:09:33 PM

    Reminds me of how they archived data in blade runner with librarys full of little crystals as optical storage.

    With Sony soon to stop making blue ray it makes me fearful in what to use for a long term archive.

    https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/sony-stops-produc...

  • by glouwbug on 11/30/2024, 4:47:23 PM

    Can’t be more expensive than AWS

  • by 1317 on 11/30/2024, 4:56:56 PM

    the paper: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41566-024-01573-1