Innerworld@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 18 hours agoMicrosoft has etched palm-sized slabs of ordinary glass into data “books” capable of storing 4.8 terabytes — the equivalent of roughly 2M books or 200 4K movieswww.nature.comexternal-linkmessage-square10linkfedilinkarrow-up144arrow-down11
arrow-up143arrow-down1external-linkMicrosoft has etched palm-sized slabs of ordinary glass into data “books” capable of storing 4.8 terabytes — the equivalent of roughly 2M books or 200 4K movieswww.nature.comInnerworld@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 18 hours agomessage-square10linkfedilink
minus-squarejordanlund@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up31arrow-down1·18 hours agoOh, look, it’s the latest mass storage tech that will never be commercially produced!
minus-squarecmnybo@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·15 hours agoIt’s for archival of data that needs to be stored for thousands of years, not for consumer use.
minus-squaresin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·18 hours agoReminds me a bit of this older “breakthrough” https://petapixel.com/2021/11/01/new-5d-disc-storage-can-store-500tb-of-data-for-13-billion-years/
minus-squarejordanlund@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·17 hours ago“Holographic Storage” - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holographic_Data_Storage_System
Oh, look, it’s the latest mass storage tech that will never be commercially produced!
It’s for archival of data that needs to be stored for thousands of years, not for consumer use.
Reminds me a bit of this older “breakthrough” https://petapixel.com/2021/11/01/new-5d-disc-storage-can-store-500tb-of-data-for-13-billion-years/
“Holographic Storage” - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holographic_Data_Storage_System