Comment on Indestructible quartz crystal can store 360TB of data for billions of years
deegeese@sopuli.xyz 1 year agoWhy would it be any different from the real data? Checksumming is basically just writing extra copies with math.
Comment on Indestructible quartz crystal can store 360TB of data for billions of years
deegeese@sopuli.xyz 1 year agoWhy would it be any different from the real data? Checksumming is basically just writing extra copies with math.
spankmonkey@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I’m asking why it would be more reliable if it has the same vulnerability to being corrupted.
deegeese@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
Checksums are redundancy.
spankmonkey@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Right, but if the checksum is corrupted…
deegeese@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
Yes Mr smarty pants, if all copies of data are corrupted the data is lost. More redundancy is more protection.