This USB flash drive can only store 8KB of data, but will last you 200 years
This USB flash drive can only store 8KB of data, but will last you 200 years
Something you do not expect from a NAND-based drive, do you?
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An actual book stores more data than that and for longer. At that point, why not just etch the data onto a metal plate or something? 8K is only a few pages of text at 12pt. It could easily fit onto two sides of a small-ish metal plate, etched in 8pt or so, and it would last, potentially, for millennia.
I think the idea is to improve upon this tech so the capacity would become larger.
It’s FRAM, which has been around for ages. The problem is its prohibitive cost— hence the 8k.
This can be rewritten many, many, many times.
What’s the practical benefit of that? If the point is long-term storage, rewriting isn’t a priority (or possibly even a need). And this isn’t designed for capacity.
It's so I can exchange fart jokes with my great great great great grandson via a magic USB port a la The Notebook, assuming that's how it works, idk, never actually seen the movie.
I usually update my backups with new TOTP or other cryptographic keys every few months. Sometimes every few days (when I generate new keys).
Why even invent the car when horse so much faster?
You wouldn’t use a car to race in the Kentucky Derby
Maybe you wouldn't
You'd make a bunch of jockeys mad
Fine, I'll drive from the roof like a jockey
idk, its much more resistant to floods.
Than an etched metal plate?
Yes.
USB drives don’t mix well with water
Why do you say that? I've put several through a washing machine and gone swimming with mine. Electronic usually are fine with water. Batteries are not.
Just let it dry out before passing a charge through it, and it works fine. Not so easy with paper.
Not so easy with paper.
I had suggested a metal plate, not paper.
To be fair to them, you did start by saying a book would be better.
To be fair to you, that was roughly 10% of your comment. Clearly they did not read the rest.