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  • I’ve always wanted to have a media format as described in Infinite Jest. This is in that neighborhood…
    by octol
  • We where just talking about tape and other long term back up for Langrange Point Cloud. Fun to see the lasers.
    by bhewes
  • The video says they use 200GB Blu-ray media. Is this something new?
    by ranger_danger
  • These don't seem really physically immutable, just protected by the firmware of the drives/robot against being written twice. With enough effort couldn't the same laser write _something_ over them again? Maybe optical discs need a hole that gets punched out or something, like the old floppy disk write protect. (And then make that control a physical laser power switch)
    by mkj
  • How does this compare vs Microsoft’s Project Silica? Available for purchase being the immediate differentiator, but curious how they fare technically.

    https://unlocked.microsoft.com/sealed-in-glass/

    by 0cf8612b2e1e
  • With that modern LLMs are capable of I'n seriously considering investing in at least M-DISC storage or similar to store stuff I don't want to lose :). It's unlikely that both iCloud and Synology get hacked at the same time, but the probability is higher than I could imagine before.
    by nasretdinov
  • So it's like a tape library, but for 1Tb optical disks?

    I think a tape library still wins. LTO-9 allows 18Tb on one tape (without compression) and LTO-10 is 30/40Tb

    And tape is going to be fine, as long as it's kept in reasonable conditions. No need to do clean rooms to store it or anything like that.

    by cyberax

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