Comment on Indestructible quartz crystal can store 360TB of data for billions of years
deegeese@sopuli.xyz 2 years 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 2 years agoWhy would it be any different from the real data? Checksumming is basically just writing extra copies with math.
spankmonkey@lemmy.world 2 years ago
I’m asking why it would be more reliable if it has the same vulnerability to being corrupted.
deegeese@sopuli.xyz 2 years ago
Checksums are redundancy.
spankmonkey@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Right, but if the checksum is corrupted…
deegeese@sopuli.xyz 2 years ago
Yes Mr smarty pants, if all copies of data are corrupted the data is lost. More redundancy is more protection.