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Project Silica’s coaster-size glass plates can store unaltered data for thousands of years, creating sustainable storage for the world

Microsoft develops ultra durable glass plates that can store several TBs of data for 10000 years::Project Silica’s coaster-size glass plates can store unaltered data for thousands of years, creating sustainable storage for the world

  • Madis@lemm.eeEnglish
    143·
    8 months ago

    Is it durable just because it’s thick, or can we use this tech in mobile screens too?

    • crawley@lemmy.worldEnglish
      31·
      8 months ago

      I don’t think it’s that type of “durable.” I think they mean you can read from it forever without having to rewrite the data, which currently isn’t true of platter and solid state storage. This isn’t screen technology, though, it’s storage technology, so I’m not sure the comparison is useful.

      • Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        7·
        8 months ago

        I think they were talking about making the screen also a storage device but yeah doesn’t seem possible with this tech at least.

        • crawley@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          8 months ago

          Good point, maybe. But yeah, this isn’t rewritable media, this is archival data storage.