Unfortunately, currently produced mdisks are not the same as older ones. Requirements for media has been relaxed a while ago, most disks are not meant to last 1000 years anymore. Still, I don't know any viable alternative, besides maybe LTOs if you're lucky to know somebody with reasonable drive (not sure about US, in EU drives are quite expensive, and I mean used drives of course).
I just figured out from subcomments it's an excerpt from article, so my comment just doesn't fit here (thought author of the comment I replied to just braged they can vibe code something ad hoc and don't need to read about domain). Apologies for the mistake (still keeping my opinion about vibe coding).
I love vibe coding. Even the variables don't match (x, y, x vs axis[3]) and the coder is left with no knowledge what's they doing. You'll probably either prompt for fixing it or fix it yourself, but will still not get substantial amount of the domain knowledge -- and let's be honest, this is example just the simplest term there, that's why the code is so easy to correct even without thinking...
There's such thing, at least in prototype stage. Like cryptDB, which, afaik is homomorphic with a nice property of preserving the order of encrypted keys. It leaks some information, but you can apply predicates different than equality, like `where a between 100 and 200`. In that case, the query passed to server will look like `where a between encrypted(100) and encrypted(200)` and server will be able to apply it, without knowing real values of the range limits or data stored in `a` column. With encryption function which don't preserve order, the data would need to be filtered client-side, so whole projection would be dumped to client and it would be the client who first decrypts the data, and then filters-out unnecessary rows.
Edit: found Reddit discussion I learned that from: https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/13693k0/new_de...