Close your laptop lid and open it 1,000 years later to carry on your Baldur's Gate 3 save as if nothing had happened.

I once speculated to a friend about 15 years ago that eventually solid state storage space would be so fast that it could serve as active memory. I can’t wait to tell him.

  • Longpork_afficianado@lemmy.nzEnglish
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    1 year ago

    My initial thought was that everything would be stored in triplicate, then read in triplicate and ‘voted’ to the correct value, but I guess even that only extends the time before random bit-flips make the data unreadable. You’re probably right on the need for active error checking if there is an intention to store anything long-term in this manner.