Microsoft's Project Silica team details its laser-modified glass storage tech, saying tests suggest that it can preserve large amounts of data for 10,000+ years
“This will change the way we think about keeping data and archival preservation.” — Our knowledge of the past comes from stone tablets and old parchment.
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Today in @Nature, we shared new results from Project Silica—our work to encode data in glass—pushing toward durable, immutable archival storage designed to last for millennia. https://www.microsoft.com/...
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Project Silica introduces new techniques for encoding data in borosilicate glass, as described in the journal Nature. These advances lower media cost and simplify writing and reading systems while supporting 10,000-year data preservation: https://www.microsoft.com/... [image]
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Breakthrough research by Microsoft, the most durable archival storage for data centers. 4.8TB inside a glass platter that could last 10,000 years. In this work the platter is about 120mm by 120mm and about 2mm thick. Archives today usually use magnetic tape or disks, and [image]
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@wretchardthecat
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Microsoft has announced a technology that will store data on silica glass that will last 10,000 years to overcome the current limited lifetime of magnetic storage. I guess we too can become the Krell. https://www.microsoft.com/...