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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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[–] voodooattack@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Data is written by two million laser beamlets that punch QR code-like nano-scale patterns into the surface of the media. The laser pulse is sharpened by a digital micromirror device, and shaped by microscope optics onto the surface of the data carrier. This process imprints holes – or no holes – onto the surface layer, which represents binary information.

It’s futuristic punchcards. We’ve come full circle.

[–] wrath_of_grunge@kbin.social 1 points 10 months ago

It’s futuristic punchcards.

always was.