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    44 days ago

    The work carried out by a team at the University of Science and Technology of China achieved a new record for storage density in diamonds, at 1.85 terabytes per cubic centimeter.

    Finally a digital storage solution that will last potentially millions of years. Anyone want to guess why it will never see any meaningful adoption?

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      4 days ago

      Writing to diamond would be a bitch, and diamond is artificially scarce?

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        23 days ago

        Manufacturing diamonds at scale for writing data would, uh, be problematic for certain . . cartels. I mean, industries. Yes.