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Microsoft develops ultra durable glass plates that can store several TBs of data for 10000 years
(unlocked.microsoft.com)
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this post was submitted on 25 Oct 2023
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MS: it can last for 10000 years!
Me: have you tested that
MS: well no b-
Me: your company is not even 50 years old
MS: but we ran the simulations
Me: ...
I really hate this like 'in my imaginary world, where everything is perfect and not as much as an atom of dirt comes into contact with the product, and therefore nobody uses the product while it is sealed in a vacuum chamber, then hypothetically it will still be good in a billion years. MTBF = infinity. ship it.'
I get where you're coming from, but I also think it's fair to say archaeologists have at least some insight into what happens to glass over long periods of time. Hopefully Microsoft has consulted with them.
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Wow, so Microsoft can now make memory efficient Windows? A CHRISTMAS MIRACLE!
Is it durable just because it's thick, or can we use this tech in mobile screens too?
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Me taking out a piece of hermetically sealed perfectly persevered data storage glass 10000 years in the future:
Scratches it immediately
Edit:
Also me, storing several TB's of porn on ultra durable glass plates:
The future will thank me
Several TB you say. So one install is MS OS.
Ridulian crystal v1
I hope this will end up being available to regular consumers one day and not just as an expensive enterprise solution.
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Would you eventually be able to get data printed and have the plates sent to you, so you can store them yourself in a safe place?
This would be a great option for preserving the source media for films and videos, for example. Not just the finished product, but every take etc.
Data is data, you could store anything there. The question is if this would eventually reach some sort of consumer market. By the looks of it it's in a very early stage (where all equipment to read and write is still in RnD phase) so it's not where you can have a sata cable attached to it in your pc.
Didn't intel make same thing few years ago?
What are you going to read it with? Unless it’s photographically reduced text, like microfiche, it’s unlikely that the computer hardware and software will still exist.
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Ah so that's what those traslucid bricks were in star trek!
In 10k years, there either won’t be anyone left to read them, or the technology at the time won’t be able to read them.
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