Comment on Indestructible quartz crystal can store 360TB of data for billions of years
spankmonkey@lemmy.world 10 months agoOn that timescale, what are the odds that the checksum is still reliable?
Comment on Indestructible quartz crystal can store 360TB of data for billions of years
spankmonkey@lemmy.world 10 months agoOn that timescale, what are the odds that the checksum is still reliable?
deegeese@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
Why would it be any different from the real data? Checksumming is basically just writing extra copies with math.
spankmonkey@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I’m asking why it would be more reliable if it has the same vulnerability to being corrupted.
deegeese@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
Checksums are redundancy.
spankmonkey@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Right, but if the checksum is corrupted…