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Just wait until one of your techs drops a cassette of these glass and ceramic plates and suddenly your company is out 100,000TB of data.
The whole "it can last 5000 years" thing is somewhat ridiculous considering the library mechanisms, carriers for the slides and basically everything else not glass and ceramic probably won't last more than 20 or 30.
It is possible to make glass and ceramics that are resistant to shattering from fair hard impacts. I don't know if that can be employed here, but there are other ways to deal with the problem.
Additionally, if 100,000 TB is something that people can carry by hand, then it is also possible to back up those drives relatively easily (relative to that technology).
Lastly, current silicon fabs have boxes of wafers that at the final stages can exceed $1M in the retail value. They have robots that handle those. If the 100,000 TB is worth something close to that, then a human will not be carrying it.
Who dat
Pharma has entered the chat...they just have warehouse people riding forklifts with pallets worth much more than $1M.
I'm sure pharmacy has some crazy value density, but it's hards to put accurate values on their products because of insurance.
The boxes of wafers I was talking about is roughly 1.5 ft cubed. The fabs will have hundreds of these boxes moving around by robots at any one time.
Not really, i work in the industry (in europe), and prices we use in the production facilities are actual selling value, not the ridicolous inflated prices you see on the invoice in the US.
Or just put the cartridge in a shockproof box. One that can last as long as the medium. It can't be that hard to make a really good box.
As far as I know, there is 1 storage technology that has survived wars. Paper.
Say that to the library of Alexandria.
Yes, but paper isn't information dense and is highly susceptible to even the smallest amount of moisture in the air.
Paper is notoriously easy to destroy in conflicts
There's another, better one: stone carvings.