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Video of ceramic storage system prototype surfaces online — 10,000TB cartridges bombarded with laser rays could become mainstream by 2030, making slow hard drives and tapes obsolete | TechRadar (www.techradar.com)

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Those totally look like the isolinear chips from Star Trek

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[–] A_A 16 points 11 months ago (4 children)

... Data can be written at GBps speeds, with TB/square-centimeter areal densities ...

Say, 8 Tbits/cm² (so 1 TB/cm²) ...
this is aprox ( 10^-7^m )^2^ unit cells.

Conventional optical microscopy cannot resolve this, so, maybe they are using evanescent surface optics ?

[–] [email protected] 28 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I like your funny words, magic man

[–] A_A 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Very happy to hear you saying this, well, this is science not magics :
Evanescent field
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evanescent_field
In electromagnetics, an evanescent field, or evanescent wave, is an oscillating electric and/or magnetic field that does not propagate as an electromagnetic...

[–] Crackhappy 18 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I like your funny words, magnet man.

[–] A_A 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Thanks for these kind words Mr C. Happy.
(I know there must be a joke and I'm sorry that I do not get it. I have a lot of difficulty to grasp many jokes. Thanks anyway.)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The line "I like your funny words, magic man" is from this scene from Clone High. People use it when they want to show they don't understand what was said but appreciated it none the less. CrackHappy changed it to "magnet man" because they are least got that much from what you were saying.

[–] A_A 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Aaah ! that's why ! Thanks :)
People wouldn't believe but since 10 years I've watched maybe 5 to 10 hours (total) of video including YouTube, TV and whatever. Also went to cinema maybe five times.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

Missing the odd pop culture reference is understandable in that case haha

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

🤣

[–] RubberElectrons 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Good question. "Everything was built with CoTS components"... Hmm.

[–] tonbo 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I think it's 3dimensional not 2

[–] A_A 1 points 11 months ago

This would absolutely make sense. Unfortunately, they don't say whether or not (it's 3D) in the article. Well ... they do describe it as a microscopic QR code which is 2D.