The thing is, storing data is actually pretty easy, reading it is hard

360TB at 4MBps. I do not want to know how long that will take. Pretty cool though, reminds me of the crystal technology they have on Stargate.

So this would be really neat for an Apollo (H:ZD) style repository of knowledge in case of global civilizational collapse. I'd love to give the people three hundred years down the road a hand and help them build solar panels and make penicillin. I'd love to share our stories with them, or at least leave them a copy of Bill Wurtz's History of the Entire World, I Guess. This seems like a great use case for that, only the question I keep coming back to is "how do we tell them how to read it?"

"First, make a computer"? After global civilizational collapse?

And before anyone says books, let me point you to the Library of Alexandria, Nalanda University (it's said the university smoldered for a month after the mongols torched it), and the Bronze Age Collapse. Fire and Water have a way of making books disappear, this at least seems far more durable and much more information dense.

Come on, Verbatim. Let's get cracking on those disks.

Basically the same as project Silica. Microsoft has been working on that since 2017.

15 billion years is quite ok, actually.

According to SPhotonix, its current prototypes achieve write speeds of around 4 MBps and read speeds of roughly 30 MBps.

I think you will be there for a while with 360TB space.