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.
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.
Some current HDD platters are already made of glass or ceramic.
I would think it’s just not made for portable use but for storing data at a data center
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I have some questions: How fast are read and write operations and random access? What are the expected prices, once it hit mass production for the average consumer? And how long is expected to take until this happens?
From the article it seems to be write once and then it is read only. As reading requires mechanical movement (for now), I would guess that random reads are quite slow.
So I guess the first application would be archives, and then later it could be used like a CD.
Makes sense. I hope Nintendo uses these as game cartridges in the future. :D
On the one hand, I’m slightly disappointed because ever since I first heard about this tech I’ve been lusting after having a quartz drive in my own computer so I can burn billion-year “disks” of my stuff. :) But on the other hand, at least this is good news that the tech is progressing toward actual use. It’s another step along the way.
silicon storage heaven
There is no such thing!
I just hope this takes off so the market gets flooded with cheap LTO tapes and drives for us amateur archivists
I love the little robots
