This is also assuming that reading and writing are mutually exclusive.

The places where this level of storage density and longevity are valuable are places that are generating terabytes or tens of terabytes a day. Especially scientific research.

It is definitely an interesting development, and the lack of bit rot makes it incredibly useful as an archival system. However, I am curious if the surrounding hardware necessary to actually successfully read from it is going to be as long-lived. Similar to magnetic hard drives, I am sure the plates that are being written to need to exist in an extremely sterile and particle-free environment in order to be read and written to.

At 10MB/s it’d take you 416 days if constant writes to fill it up.

EXTREMELY slow archival.

At least for now, till it gets better