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I wonder how much FEC is built into them. (In other words, what is the biggest scratch you could put into it without losing data.)
How about a disc that is made of glass, has a capacity of a DVD and can be read by standard dvd players and can be bought today, for a mere of €160? THIS is amazing. http://www.syylex.com/index.php/home_english.html
This is useless until they find an "intuitive" way to store the process to decode the binary data into something readable.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Can electronics be designed in a way so that it has a very long life? NASA seem to be pretty good at that. I guess it's a question of cost more than anything else.
The oldest stuff NASA has out there is what, 35 years old? Hardly a "very long life". And it's floating in vacuum, which is pretty much the ideal storage environment. Making stuff last in space is much easier than on Earth (and much easier than getting it there, of course).
Following the news spam after news spam, here is the AFP story all the submitted page and "sources" copied from: http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hrS0Kp5RL...
Can they rewrite stuff on glass? Or is it a one way write?
Following the news spam after news spam, here is the AFP story all the submitted page and "sources" copied from: http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hrS0Kp5RL...
That link won't work without a Google referrer.
This seems to be the same article though: http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/computers/glass-slivers-t...
Yes it is: http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/computers/glass-slivers-t...
The density is 40MB/in².