It isn’t writable
Comment on Indestructible quartz crystal can store 360TB of data for billions of years
deegeese@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
They say “billions of years” but that sounds like just the sort of thing a stray cosmic ray would ruin.
Maybe they’re planning on using a checksum for error correction like they do with RAID.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
deegeese@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
So?
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
What would be the point? You would just know that the data is invalid. You couldn’t fix it
deegeese@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
Use the checksum to correct the read, just like always. You don’t repair damaged ROM anyway.
spankmonkey@lemmy.world 2 months ago
On that timescale, what are the odds that the checksum is still reliable?
deegeese@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
Why would it be any different from the real data? Checksumming is basically just writing extra copies with math.
spankmonkey@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I’m asking why it would be more reliable if it has the same vulnerability to being corrupted.
deegeese@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
Checksums are redundancy.