Microsoft's new 10,000-year data storage medium: glass
Archival storage poses lots of challenges. We want media that is extremely dense and stable for centuries or more, and, ideally, doesn't consume any energy when not being accessed. Lots of ideas have floated around—even DNA has been considered—but one of the simplest is to...
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Microsoft's new 10,000-year data storage medium: glass
Archival storage poses lots of challenges. We want media that is extremely dense and stable for centuries or more, and, ideally, doesn't consume any energy when not being accessed. Lots of ideas have floated around—even DNA has been considered—but one of the simplest is to etch data into glass....
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