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Imagine dropping said sheet of glass and losing 7tb of your data

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Presumably you can store the glass in a metal case with some padding? It’s not gonna be much more fragile than a hard drive.

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Some current HDD platters are already made of glass or ceramic.

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I would think it’s just not made for portable use but for storing data at a data center

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Oopsie doopsie.

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