Mass production of revolutionary computer memory moves closer with ULTRARAM TM on silicon wafers for the first time

Jan 07, 2022 Last reply: 2 years ago 22 Replies

Our "serious" data (i.e. designs, sources etc.) is on dps machines only and a backup still fits on a DVD (would have no chance to do so if we were using outside design and programming tools). The USB HDDs are nice, we have several full of films and tv-shows we thought we might re-watch (and practically never did/do.... but who knows what is around the corner). The photo archive has grown larger than a dvd, it goes on a few bluray disks and on some of the usb HDD-s, plus some of it going to my dps hdd-s. I don't back the dps images to usb drives mainly due to a policy "no access to our designs for any alien OS", not that I have been that fixated on this but I managed to maintain it for decades so why now drop it.

The last time I accessed some of our floppies was some 10-15 years ago as I moved them to image files under dps (I also have an emulation of the old 6809 based machine which used these floppies). Interestingly some 10-20 year old floppies were readable but any attempt to write to them was damaging the sector write was attempted to.

To entrust our data to it, we have to wait for stocking distributors; to pony up investment, opportunity will arrive sooner.

The silicon parts are do-able, it's the OTHER exotic materials in the mix that are bothersome; nano-sheets of indium arsenide and gallium antimonide and aluminum antimonide, and no internal strains or cracks allowed, for a few gigabytes of data, will have to compete with DVD-R variants for cost (unlikely this decade) and write speed (needs work) and packing/storing/retrieving in some variant filing system (that, seems like it could happen).

Compared to flash, the size of bits is huge, and the process layers other than the silicon foundation are relatively unknown territory.

On a sunny day (Sat, 8 Jan 2022 12:05:23 -0800 (PST)) it happened whit3rd snipped-for-privacy@gmail.com wrote in snipped-for-privacy@googlegroups.com:

Good point

Yes, for now I have backups on DVD / Bluray, USB harddisks (2) and USB FLASH. Also some nice stuff on M-DISC (using an LG DVD burner), supposed to last a long time:

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advice with exactly one thousand DVDs in an alu box now: keep those stored in the absolute dark. It is the same as with photography, exposure time * light intensity will kill your data. In a day if on the bookshelf in a transparent plastic box in the sun. Oldest CD-R discs now 20 years or more and still readable.
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