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this post was submitted on 03 Dec 2023
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Just wait until one of your techs drops a cassette of these glass and ceramic plates and suddenly your company is out 100,000TB of data.
The whole "it can last 5000 years" thing is somewhat ridiculous considering the library mechanisms, carriers for the slides and basically everything else not glass and ceramic probably won't last more than 20 or 30.
Having backups at multiple sites is industry standard. Nobody is keeping 100,000TB of data in a single location.
As for your second point, I don't see the relevance. You can store the glass wherever you want, the other mechanisms aren't relevant for keeping the stored data.