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Or you drop something heavy nearby and the disk skips and aborts.

Very expensive mistake if you messed up the disk during the write period.

The readers and writers are pretty pricey as well.

I use bluerays, but have seen mold (finger prints!) growing between the layers of plastic, so definitely not a long term solution.

You could make new hardware, but realistically, it doesnt happen. The secrets get lost, the skills get lost, and the medium dies.

There is no chance that there is a working reader in a few thousand years time, let alone billions.

All that said, I agree that we need stable long term storage, my point is that billion year storage is just a fantasy spec. It looks good to investors, but doesnt hold up to reality.

Of course, but that is still a very long time.

360TB x 500Mb/s write == 73 days to write

https://www.omnicalculator.com/other/data-transfer

Thats a long write time. Also, I have to assume that most of the read/write hardware can't live that long, so that's all a bit theoretical. They'll stop producing the hardware shortly after selling all the discs.

Interesting, thanks! Is drinking a film of it okay? I assumed not, but I am immunocompromised, so I'm happy to play it safe.

Don't drink it though, the our drier tub likes to grow pink ~~mold~~ bacteria.

Edit: fixed inaccuracies.

Thats true of all datacenters though, not just AI. 1RU fans are just crazy noisy.

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I wish that were true, but if you haven't seen any, thank your moderators.

I am a pretend engineer, so take this with a grain of salt, but my guess is that because its very hard to perfectly airtight seal a pipe of that length, the siphon would be very hard to maintain.

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