News Optical storage could get ‘ultra-high-density’ reprieve thanks to quantum research

[Admin]

Scientists claim to have revealed a pathway to a new kind of 'efficient, ultra-high-density optical memory storage.' The researchers hope to revive the fortunes of optical storage with the help of rare earth elements and quantum defects.

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[DS426]

My main concern would be long-term data integrity; to me, something like this makes the most sense for archiving data, so if that's a non-issue, great!

 

[vanadiel007]

Does not make much sense to me when looking at the picture. Anything quantum is typically very unstable, not to mention a disc fabricated from these materials would likely cost away above what is commercially viable.

Looks more like a lab experiment to me than an actual new technology.

 

[ottonis]

Importantly, it's not only the density and total amount of possible iformation storage but also the speed by which this information can be written and/or read from an optical medium.
High capacity and slow speed would massively narrow down the use case of such memory discs as they would only be of use in ling-term archiving sytems, were speed is not a critical component of the process.
On the other hand, having high-capacity high-speed memory would be of use for all on-the fly backup processes or even media that needs speedy access and transfer rates, e,g, very large database search, or ultra high resolution film/movie material.
Just imagine having a 100 TB optical disc that you could use as storage for your private media server - with literally tons of shows, movies, concerts etc ....

 

[d0x360]

Perhaps they should solve disc rot before anything else ...

Microsoft already has proven Crystal is a viable storage medium so let's focus on that instead of yet another format that will decay in 10-15 years like current optical storage does