QuentinCallaghan to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish • 9 months agoMicrosoft Repositions 7TB 'Project Silica' Glass Media as a Cloud Storage Solutionwww.tomshardware.comexternal-linkmessage-square17fedilinkarrow-up162arrow-down10
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minus-square@loops@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkEnglish47•9 months 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.delinkfedilink21•9 months agoImagine dropping said sheet of glass and losing 7tb of your data
minus-square@ReadyUser30@beehaw.orglinkfedilink7•9 months 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-squarepbjammlinkfedilinkEnglish6•9 months agoSome current HDD platters are already made of glass or ceramic.
minus-square@Micromot@feddit.delinkfedilink4•9 months agoI would think it’s just not made for portable use but for storing data at a data center
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
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
Oopsie doopsie.