"According to SPhotonix, its current prototypes achieve write speeds of around 4 MBps and read speeds of roughly 30 MBps."
Assuming I did the math right, that means it'd take almost 3 years at max write speed to fill up the 360TB drive. So yeah, not quite ready for public consumption just yet.
Lots of archival applications that can use this today at these speeds, assuming you’re staging the data like you would for tape. It’s slow, but permanent from a longevity perspective. You could fit 200PB of the Internet Archive in ~600 of these 5 inch glass discs. Hopefully speeds improve, along with infra to treat the media similar to an automated tape library.
With these numbers the use cases seem limited to small batches of data that need the extreme durability, but to fully use this durability, you'd need to launch your archives to highly eliptical orbits that would take them to the further reaches of the solar system, because the Sun will be a white dwarf long before the warranty expires.
When I do use them, I always get there using LLM queries via Kagi Assistant. And when I get there, I don't spend more than a minute looking for the info that was presented by the LLM summary. I don't spend time as a contributor to review posts anymore.
My previous company was like this, and it boggles the mind.
Sales is so focused on their experience that they completely discount what the customer wants. Senior management wants what's best for sales & the bottom line, so they go along with it. Meanwhile, as a prospective customer I would never spend a minute evaluating our product if it means having to call sales to get a demo & a price quote.
My team was focused on an effort to implement self-service onboarding -- that is, allowing users to demo our SaaS product (with various limitations in place) & buy it (if so desired) without the involvement in sales. We made a lot of progress in the year that I was there, but ultimately our team got shutdown & the company was ready to revert back to sales-led onboarding. Last I heard, the CEO "left" & 25% of the company was laid off; teams had been "pivoting" every which way in the year since I'd been let go, as senior management tried to figure out what might help them get more traction in their market.
My current employer offers three tiers of licensing with clearly articulated prices & benefits (the lowest of which is free), but also offers a "Custom - let's talk" option because the reality is that sometimes customer situations are complicated and bespoke contracts make sense, but at least the published pricing provides directional guidance heading into a discussion. I think this is reasonable.
For real though, Meta flushing all that money down the drain is keeping VR as a whole hanging on by a thread. I'm not sure whether it survives if they pull back to focus on Google Glass 2 or whatever.
Holy crap, thanks for sharing this. I'm still pretty new to macOS, but I absolutely love Voidtools Everything on Windows. If Cardinal supports the same syntax as Everything and is anywhere near responsive, that'll be a gamechanger for me.
I know, Everything is one of the few pieces of software I've missed when switching to macOS.
Cardinal seems to be almost as responsive, except that the current search doesn't update when you delete a file that's in it - you have to search again for it to be gone. IIRC Everything auto-refreshes the view.
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