5D optical memory.

[TheBrenz]

This new storage technology allows extremly high capacities around 360tb/disc and can withstand temperatures over 1000 degrees Celsius. They recorded and retrieved five dimensional digital data by femtosecond laser writing. 

 

 

http://phys.org/news/2013-07-5d-optical-memory-glass-evidence.html

 

[Hyydrah]

Excellent, I wonder how fast it will be.

[ProGearUk]

SO now there will be no need for multi bay nas systems I am not sure if I like this because people won't buy more than one drive meaning no redundancy.

[Wferr]

UIle

 

SO now there will be no need for multi bay nas systems I am not sure if I like this because people won't buy more than one drive meaning no redundancy.

Im  betting they will be insainly expensive like ssd's were when they came out so not many peeps will buy in the first place.

[ProGearUk]

UIle

 

Im  betting they will be insainly expensive like ssd's were when they came out so not many peeps will buy in the first place.

That is true. I personally would never put a SSD in a NAS or a storage server. 

[carolkarine]

plus these are only really useful to people who need video scratch disks.

[carolkarine]

or massive servers.

[Poofu]

but can you download more RAM with it?

[mr moose]

That is true. I personally would never put a SSD in a NAS or a storage server. 

I saw a guy on youtube who reckons he had 6 first gen ssds  raided in a web server, they started getting slow and dying after 2 years.  I can't verify that story but from other sources it is quite possible. Imagine the amount of write cycles each drive would receive running forum server for 2 years.

 

 

Reading this article made me think of data cubes from star trek.

[ProGearUk]

I saw a guy on youtube who reckons he had 6 first gen ssds  raided in a web server, they started getting slow and dying after 2 years.  I can't verify that story but from other sources it is quite possible. Imagine the amount of write cycles each drive would receive running forum server for 2 years.

 

 

Reading this article made me think of data cubes from star trek.

Exactly the point why I will only ever put hard drives in any form of storage server. 

[FireFox]

That is so cool, I want one just for the hell of it

[ShearMe]

If I'm reading this article correctly, you can only write to the 5D memory once? It sounds great if I can write to it in my own home, but I don't have quite the room necessary for an expensive high-powered laser. 

[mr moose]

If I'm reading this article correctly, you can only write to the 5D memory once? It sounds great if I can write to it in my own home, but I don't have quite the room necessary for an expensive high-powered laser. 

 

Once upon a time it would have taken a expensive room sized laser just to burn a basic CD.

[ShearMe]

Once upon a time it would have taken a expensive room sized laser just to burn a basic CD.

 

True, though I don't see governments letting lasers that can do this kind of damage become accessible to the peasantry.

[bcredeur97]

Can they make this into like a hard drive platter, or better yet just make a whole different type of Hard drive with this that way we can fill up huge RAID arrays ????