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    Microsoft verwandelt gewöhnliches Glas in eine permanente Festplatte. Ein winziger Platz kann 10.000 Jahre lang 2 Millionen Bücher speichern

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    2. jcunews1 on

      It’s glass based, and it doesn’t mention anything about media durability. Only data durability – which is meaningless if the media durability is low.

    4. FirstEvolutionist on

      Ah yes, if only we had a way to measure data that wasn’t based on a number of books…

    5. ddgconsultant on

      Project Silica is a fascinating long-term data preservation solution. Using femtosecond laser pulses to encode data in 3D voxels within quartz glass is genuinely elegant – glass is chemically inert, doesn’t degrade from heat or EMPs, and doesn’t require power to maintain stored data. The 10,000-year durability claim is based on accelerated aging tests. The main challenge for widespread adoption is write speed and cost per gigabyte compared to conventional storage. This seems ideal for cold archival storage of critical human knowledge rather than everyday use cases.

    10. ExtruDR on

      Write speed and capacity surely are a thing, but in this day and age cold storage and it’s data integrity is really a thing.

      I mean, I’m ok sitting on a dozen TB of photos and crap sitting in my closet on an HD inside of a NAS, but that is a relatively temporary storage solution that has to be moved/updated or at least validated every once in a while and eventually the hardware will fail. Hopefully not all at the same time.

      Having a small box of inert storage media sitting in a closet or two for an indefinite amount of time is certainly appealing. Especially if you pair it with some basic encryption, the only thing you have to store and preserve is the encryption keys.

      I could totally see this being a thing if it can become a consumer-friendly product.

    12. GrandmasLilPeeper on

      This title is stupid and manipulative. Purposely lacking details so you are impressed without knowing the details, likely because the tech is not actually functional compared to a HD.

    14. UnknownSampleRate on

      Can it be used before American government burns all the library books?

    20. NeverInsightful on

      What are the odds of anyone being around to retrieve this data in 2 million years?

    21. Ninja_Wrangler on

      Man in 10,001 years:

      „Oh boy, I can’t wait to read my favorite book!“

    22. braunyakka on

      You know. If an interesting article was written 4 days ago, you can just go and assume it’s already been posted to Reddit 10 times. There’s no need to post it again.

    23. Odur29 on

      I’ll take every movie ever made on a piece of glass please, and a drive to watch them with.

    24. Zahgi on

      >These allow an extremely high storage density of 1.59 gigabits per cubic millimetre.

      So, ~200 megabytes per cubic mm.

      Which is actually not that great compared to modern hard drive platters. It’s somewhat better and would surely would last longer, but that’s why the article used the nonsense metric of „2 million books“ instead of gigabits and the weasel words „one tiny square“ when they meant cubic millimeter.

    26. Dont-PM-me-nudes on

      Microsoft don’t know of any other unit for describing storage size other than books?

    28. DrapersSmellyGlove on

      This is why I think “microchips” are not a human creation. I believe certain technologies we have now were acquired by non human intelligence and are one of many reasons why the UFO topic is such a big secret. It has given certain countries major major advantages over the years and indeed becomes a national security issue. The tricks and challenges have been understanding and reverse engineering the technology.

      This particular subject on glass storage sounds very non human to me.

    29. chessto on

      Which kind of book?
      The Silmarillion or 50 Shades of Gray?

      Can we measure information in a standard unit?

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