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Chinese researchers indicate diamonds can store data for millions of years (readwrite.com)

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[–] homesweethomeMrL 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The work carried out by a team at the University of Science and Technology of China achieved a new record for storage density in diamonds, at 1.85 terabytes per cubic centimeter.

Finally a digital storage solution that will last potentially millions of years. Anyone want to guess why it will never see any meaningful adoption?

[–] semperverus 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Writing to diamond would be a bitch, and diamond is artificially scarce?

[–] homesweethomeMrL 2 points 3 months ago

Manufacturing diamonds at scale for writing data would, uh, be problematic for certain . . cartels. I mean, industries. Yes.