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What does this have to do with what I just said?
The problem isn't how much data these can hold, but that they're not rewritable. THAT is what makes them only useful to data centres.
You can only write to them once. But they're not like hard disks or flash memory where you can delete the data and write again.
people also have necessities like these. family photos and videos, music and movies ripped from their physical media and ebooks can all be stored in a read only storage device.
I know my family has old photos that they've been trying to digitalize because of the paper slowly degrading, for example. an ordinary hard drive can fail any time. this ceramic thing could be used instead, as it appears to be more durable and there's no need rewrite anything.
Exactly.
So what if they're write once? If the capacity is high enough vs cost, then I just continue filling it up with incremental Backups. Knowing it's stable and massive means I just buy a new storage medium when it's full... In ten years.