Wissenschaftler haben ein System namens Silica zum Schreiben und Lesen von Informationen in gewöhnlichen Glasstücken demonstriert, das Daten im Wert von zwei Millionen Büchern in einem dünnen, handtellergroßen Quadrat speichern kann.
https://au.news.yahoo.com/glass-square-long-long-future-190951588.html
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Scientists at Microsoft Research in the United States have demonstrated a system called Silica for writing and reading information in ordinary pieces of glass which can store two million books’ worth of data in a thin, palm-sized square.
In a paper published today in Nature, the researchers say their tests suggest the data will be readable for more than 10,000 years.
The new system, called Silica, uses extremely short flashes of laser light to inscribe bits of information into a block of ordinary glass.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-10042-w
could we start asking for standard units on sensationalized titles? if you are talking about storing data why not say it in bytes… why is always some arbitrary measurement disguised as some simpler thing.
„new battery that can last as long as a flaming standing up“
Etched glass data storage isn’t anything new. I remember reading about it in the early 2000s when I was still a teenager, temporarily staying at my grandparents house. Maybe it is getting closer to being practical, but definitely not new.
Does this mean we’ll be able to buy hard drives again
How many giraffes tall would the squares need to be stacked to hold a library of congress?
When will this be used to sell Ultra ultra UHD in 16k?
A spinning disc of glass seems very delicate. Maybe the right glass could be the next disc.
Really though I want like a data cube or something.aybe even like a thick slab of glass.
It’s not an ordinary piece of glass of it can store anything….
And that’s just for starters!
You could put over 100,000 books on a plam-sized circle in 2006.
So we’re going to get isolinear chips?
I don’t even know why i tried to zoom in on the photo.
I dont really get the practical real-world use, considering you need femto or attosecond lasers, which looks like a full desk setup, in a specialized room with experts wearing specialized glasses to not be blind.
Maybe in data centers (and so will free up the ssd market to pre-covid levels?), not in anyone’s bedroom.
1 step closer to holocrons
is that good? I feel like I don’t consider books very good data storage devices…
I heard do hydrogen monoxide is better.
Honestly, they really should just use DNA already. It’s wildly stable, has a 4-letter code and therefore is at least two times more efficient than binary at storing information. Then we’re looking at possibly the smallest number of atoms required in a macromolecule to store said information. The scale is orders of magnitude smaller than current media for information storage such as optical discs, magnetic tape, ram, you name it
DNA is so small that we’re looking at a six order of magnitude difference in density down from silicon with the latest technology
> capacity of 4.8 TB in a 120 mm square, 2 mm thick piece of glass.
Saved you a click
This has been doing the rounds since at least 2016. Somebody wake me up when it’s an actual thing.
https://www.southampton.ac.uk/news/2016/02/5d-data-storage-update.page
Did they solve the problem of glass flowing with time?
Guess I’ll have to buy the White album again.
“We achieve a data density of 1.59 Gbit mm−3 in 301 layers for a capacity of 4.8 TB in a 120 mm square, 2 mm thick piece of glass.”
There, in more human readable units.
As a clumsy person, the idea of archiving vast amounts of information on panes of glass makes me crazy nervous.
I read the headline “scientists have…” and honestly thought this was some advertisement and not a post.