QuentinCallaghan to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish • 2 years agoMicrosoft Repositions 7TB 'Project Silica' Glass Media as a Cloud Storage Solutionwww.tomshardware.comexternal-linkmessage-square13fedilinkarrow-up140arrow-down10
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minus-square@loops@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkEnglish38•2 years ago Microsoft asserts that the 7 TB storage per glass sheet maintains data integrity for 10,000 years. Imagine people 10,000 years from now finding a 7tb homework folder of high resolution ponies.
minus-square@Micromot@feddit.delinkfedilink18•2 years agoImagine dropping said sheet of glass and losing 7tb of your data
minus-square@ReadyUser30@beehaw.orglinkfedilink4•2 years agoPresumably you can store the glass in a metal case with some padding? It’s not gonna be much more fragile than a hard drive.
minus-square@Micromot@feddit.delinkfedilink3•2 years agoI would think it’s just not made for portable use but for storing data at a data center
minus-squarepbjammlinkfedilinkEnglish3•2 years agoSome current HDD platters are already made of glass or ceramic.
Imagine people 10,000 years from now finding a 7tb homework folder of high resolution ponies.
Imagine dropping said sheet of glass and losing 7tb of your data
Oopsie doopsie.
Presumably you can store the glass in a metal case with some padding? It’s not gonna be much more fragile than a hard drive.
I would think it’s just not made for portable use but for storing data at a data center
Some current HDD platters are already made of glass or ceramic.
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