Microsoft’s 10,000-year data storage tech works with kitchenware glass

Microsoft’s 10,000-year data storage tech works with kitchenware glass

A piece of Project Silica media written with data

For roughly a decade, Microsoft has been perfecting a high-density storage technology that uses glass, lasers, and cameras, and ensures it stays intact for millennia. That’s a huge improvement over existing magnetic tape and hard drives used for archiving data, which are good for only up to a decade at the most.

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Category: Technology

Tags: Data Storage, Microsoft, Glass, Data Center, Archiving