Kiss your storage woes behind thanks to a new technique that houses data in 3D.

Note: Unfortunately the research paper linked in the article is a dead/broken/wrong link. Perhaps the author will update it later.

From the limited coverage, it doesn’t sound like there’s an actual optical drive that utilizes this yet and that it’s just theoretical based on the properties of the material the researchers developed.

I’m not holding my breath, but I would absolutely love to be able to back up my storage system to a single optical disc (even if tens of TBs go unused).

If they could make a R/W version of that, holy crap.

  • Victor@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    10 months ago

    Agreed. Bits are used more commonly when talking about transfer speeds, and bytes regarding storage.

    • CleoTheWizard@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      10 months ago

      I feel like I’ve seen bits used for storage on the scientific level since stuff like the pits and lands on a disc are expressed that way. To anyone in CS, you’d regard storage as a discrete whole part in some way. So bytes are fine. But when you’re developing storage, I believe you’d be concerned about bit density. Would need to read the paper though.

      • Victor@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        10 months ago

        Sure, I did say commonly though. So for an article title in popular media you should probably use the common units to be as relatable as possible. But it’s whatever. I guess doing it this way gets people talking, eh.