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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 (www.techradar.com)
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[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

On the other hand, data thieves would have a field day, since you would basically have to melt this in a forge to physically erase it.

It's actually more for archiving purposes than as system memory. Note the reference to tapes.