Comment on Indestructible quartz crystal can store 360TB of data for billions of years
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 month agoWhat would be the point? You would just know that the data is invalid. You couldn’t fix it
Comment on Indestructible quartz crystal can store 360TB of data for billions of years
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 month agoWhat would be the point? You would just know that the data is invalid. You couldn’t fix it
deegeese@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
Use the checksum to correct the read, just like always. You don’t repair damaged ROM anyway.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
You can’t
That’s not what a checksum is
deegeese@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
Don’t make me show you the wikipedia article.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Can’t argue with that logic.
I guess I will go back to using dd to hack the Pentagon
DaPorkchop_@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
They probably mean EC code? That said, you can use checksums to “correct” errors if you have redundant copies of the data (by reading from the other copy if one copy has a bad checksum)
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
True but that isn’t possible with just a checksum and a read only medium