Microsoft develops ultra durable glass plates that can store several TBs of data for 10000 years::Project Silica’s coaster-size glass plates can store unaltered data for thousands of years, creating sustainable storage for the world
Some of the same technology was actually also used to create windows.
You can have my upvote, but I’m not happy about it
I’m pretty happy about it.
Logs into the SilicaArk long term storage system for the first time.
“Welcome Andy, would you like to use the optimistic theme or the pessimistic theme?”
Chooses optimistic. Types in command to show storage capacity.
“The glass is half full.”
Woooow
“Project Silica’s goal is to write data in a piece of glass and store it on a shelf until it is needed. Once written, the data inside the glass is impossible to change.”
Very important note here.
That’s Glass-R but fot a few bucks more you can get a Glass-RW
Just watch out for Glass-RAM, it doesn’t work in most drives.
Excuse me, I was looking to download more glass RAM. Is it free?
So it’s great for archival storage. This is exactly the type of thing I’m interested in if it was cheap enough.
Backup wikipedia once a year to a crystal and then civilizations thousands of years from now can comb through it as they wish.
This… well roughly. People here say muh file formats etc. But you’re really going for the maximum lifetime, if its uncompressed text, it wouldn’t be too hard to reverse engineer if future people figure out that there’s data on there at all. The harder part may be extracting the data at all. We could also include instructions on how certain file formats can be read.
It’s is is still a great long term archive storage, and more likely the data would be transfered to a better storage device within a few 100 years (if we’re talking about archiving the present for future archologists that is)
How amazing would it be if we came across some tomb that was just filled with thousands of scrolls detailing the whole history of Rome and Greece and all those other empires from the BC years?
Of all the stuff I’ve seen in sci fi movies and tv shows, I really didn’t think the computer chips on glowing transparent plates was gonna become reality. What a crazy world this is.
Here, put this weird glowing crystal into the Heart of Gold’s navicom, it contains the location of the long lost planet of Magrathea.
Star Trek predicts another future technology; the isolinear chip.
Add: And the chips used on the original series were opaque, but roughly the same size.
I bet people in the 80’s said stuff like this when music started coming out on digital rainbow mirrors (CDs).
I remember when they told us a CD would last for hundreds of years LOL
Right? I had a similar question about this - what happens when it scratches?
Can they work on the 30 year old code base supporting OneDrive first? How the fuck are we supposed to willingly put our personal data up for ransom through that service?
Coding errors can live on in infamy!
I can already see the future where warlords fight over the pretty glass buried in vaults across the land so they can whittle it down into jewelry they use to decorate the skull chalices of their enemies in order to pour out libations to the magic forces from the sky that govern their lives…
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Why would the average consumer need to store data for 10000 years?
Maybe stop eating bacon and ice cream for every meal and you’ll live longer
There can only be one.
Its read only, so it would be like an old CD-ROM, once you write the data can’t alter or overwrite it.
I remember reading abiut this possibly 10 years ago or more. It’s insane how long it’s been in development
0.1% of the intended storage duration?
Given the 20 years of development between the first VTR and VHS, the 100% development to storage lifetime of that technology seems pretty large in comparison.
Also, how silly would it be if we put things into glass for 10,000 years and then 5 years later there’s a format war like VHS vs Beta and we need to redo everything?
Intelligent life in the future will find 10,000 year old records from present day humanity and be so frustrated by the multiple competing formats over the first 100 of those years that they won’t even bother trying to read it.
Of all the things to take time with to get right, extremely long term storage seems like one of the more prudent.
i find these things cool and all but any company worth having things archived already fucked it up so much that theres not much left TO archive
at least ti feels like it
Wdym? Your user’s personal info and data is the most important thing to archive, isn’t it? /S
So I read many times that it can store “several TBs of data” but how many exactly? 2, 3, 5, 10?
Do they know exactly? Is it possible that they write 5 TBs and when they try to read it, they can only read like 3, losing the other 2 TBs?
They’re being so vague with the numbers that I really doubt how mature any of this is. Given some of the examples (photos, music, War & Peace) I’m guessing 3TB or so, but it’s a fluff article, so who knows.
Wow, so Microsoft can now make memory efficient Windows? A CHRISTMAS MIRACLE!
is this Read Write or read only?
WORM: Write Once, Read Many.
Write once, cut twice
I cut it twice and it’s still too short!
You can write to it…
once
WORM drive? Write Once Read Many
Unless you put it in the dishwasher to often.
