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https://unlocked.microsoft.com/sealed-in-glass/
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
“Project Silica’s goal is to write data in a piece of glass and store it on a shelf until it is needed. Once written, the data inside the glass is impossible to change.”
Very important note here.
That’s Glass-R but got a few bucks more you can get a Glass-RW
Just watch out for Glass-RAM, it doesn’t work in most drives.
So it’s great for archival storage. This is exactly the type of thing I’m interested in if it was cheap enough.
What kind of files would you use so it could be read in 10 000 years?
True, but being very easy to make would hopefully keep costs down, allowing you to have multiple plates.
Also, this may not be for home use but companies that need to store data for years.
I could see applications for home use. Media backup comes to mind.
“Bob, why the hell did you format this as ‘Jim sux dicks’?! You know that’s permanent, right?”
10K years later
Alien captain: Anything to report?
Alien: We need to find a being named “Jim”, sir…
We’ve got lots of Roman dick drawings, so it’s our turn to leave our mark on the future
Why so negative? It could just as well be humans that find such a thing 10K years later
If the glass is nothing special, each piece would cost cents and be like burning CD’s back in the day, except infinitely recyclable.
Backup wikipedia once a year to a crystal and then civilizations thousands of years from now can comb through it as they wish.
This… well roughly. People here say muh file formats etc. But you’re really going for the maximum lifetime, if its uncompressed text, it wouldn’t be too hard to reverse engineer if future people figure out that there’s data on there at all. The harder part may be extracting the data at all. We could also include instructions on how certain file formats can be read.
It’s is is still a great long term archive storage, and more likely the data would be transfered to a better storage device within a few 100 years (if we’re talking about archiving the present for future archologists that is)
So its cd but fom the future
CDs aren’t expected to left more than 100 years in storage.
This is more like stone tablets for the future.
Archeologist in 1000 years: "this glass has some interesting etching, must have had some religious significance.
Turns out to be the lewd anthropomorphic creatures drive
Just petabytes of porn
Archaeologist in 1005 years: "We have translated the folder names on this glass storage device! The writings within refer to a important man named “Brazzers”, and there is another folder full of his correspondence to his “step sister” and someone named “Milf”.
The Prime Ejaculator
“There is only the true religion of the Void, these heretic artifacts must be destroyed”
“Aliens”
Some of the same technology was actually also used to create windows.
You can have my upvote, but I’m not happy about it
I’m pretty happy about it.
Logs into the SilicaArk long term storage system for the first time.
“Welcome Andy, would you like to use the optimistic theme or the pessimistic theme?”
Chooses optimistic. Types in command to show storage capacity.
“The glass is half full.”
Woooow
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I can see it.
I can see it, but I have no idea how to post images in comments.
Is that from Star Trek?
Yup
I have pendrives that look almost like that.
Didn’t someone make a holographic cube some ten or so years ago with the same promises.
I never get excited by this stuff. If I see it in Best Buy, then I’ll believe it.
Many people have made such devices I think. There’s probably a guy somewhere with a shelf full of them.
Yeah, also writing 10 GB of data to rolls of sticky tape in the late 90s. It can be done, but it’s not practical.
Awesome. So Microsoft, does this mean I’ll finally get access to the other 3TB of OneDrive storage that I pay for on my family plan? Or do I still have to create random accounts that would simulate other family members in order to use it?
Sure, if you don’t mind storing stuff and then never reading them again.
To be fair, I have a lot of stuff I am storing that I have realistic reason to ever need or want to read again as it is.
Never read again? These can’t be modified, but they can be read. After all, it’d be pretty useless to store data on a medium than can never be read.
This plan it built under the assumption that more people will be using one drive. The value of scrapped data isn’t just quantity, but number of people.
This is also the 10,000th time I’ve heard about this so there is that…
I almost literally yawned reading the title. “Journalists” regurgitating things they don’t understand and hyping them everytime like it’s the breakthrough of the century. I feel it waters down actual breakthroughs and makes people immune or at least apathetic to these stories because it’s the same thing over and over.
Ah, but did you know
THEY DID SURGERY ON A GRAPE
It’s working!
That’s a lot of start menu ads and telemetry code!
The goddamn telemetry code!!! Is ancient!! That’s why it’s so huge and slow
Cats: Challenge accepted.
Was it minority report or the matrix that showed humans storing data on glass?
Either way, this is pretty cool.
It seems like it would make for a great replacement for Tape Backups that are currently used for long term storage. They are easy to write to but hard to read from and restore. It’ll probably be a great technology to put backups on especially if it lasts as long as they say. The challenge will probably come in with the specialized reading and writing laser / microscopes being expensive.
So I read many times that it can store “several TBs of data” but how many exactly? 2, 3, 5, 10?
Do they know exactly? Is it possible that they write 5 TBs and when they try to read it, they can only read like 3, losing the other 2 TBs?
MS: it can last for 10000 years!
Me: have you tested that
MS: well no b-
Me: your company is not even 50 years old
MS: but we ran the simulations
Me: …
I really hate this like ‘in my imaginary world, where everything is perfect and not as much as an atom of dirt comes into contact with the product, and therefore nobody uses the product while it is sealed in a vacuum chamber, then hypothetically it will still be good in a billion years. MTBF = infinity. ship it.’
Ah, shit… I guess my great, great, great, 100x great Martian grandkids will have to suffer leaked dickpics from ancient times.
Finally. I can store my porn in my glasses.
Is this what Hal 9000’s memories were stored on?
I remember when they told us a CD would last for hundreds of years LOL
So… all the from Star Gate glass stuff might be quite accurate?
Is it durable just because it’s thick, or can we use this tech in mobile screens too?
Can they work on the 30 year old code base supporting OneDrive first? How the fuck are we supposed to willingly put our personal data up for ransom through that service?
Wow, so Microsoft can now make memory efficient Windows? A CHRISTMAS MIRACLE!
It’s fairly easy to store data for a very long time. What’s hard is remembering how to read that data after all that time.
10,000 years? But I want to forget about Windows 11 now.
Perhaps the archives are incomplete.
Me taking out a piece of hermetically sealed perfectly persevered data storage glass 10000 years in the furtue:
Scratches it immediately
Coding errors can live on in infamy!
Several TB you say. So one install is MS OS.
Ridulian crystal v1
Arondeus@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
Of all the stuff I’ve seen in sci fi movies and tv shows, I really didn’t think the computer chips on glowing transparent plates was gonna become reality. What a crazy world this is.
Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 6 months ago
Here, put this weird glowing crystal into the Heart of Gold’s navicom, it contains the location of the long lost planet of Magrathea.
Geriatrickid@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Whoops, sorry, that was my Lincoln Park discography
7u5k3n@lemmy.world 6 months ago
aeronmelon@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Star Trek predicts another future technology; the isolinier chip.
ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 6 months ago
The opacity is probably storage density.
ensignrick@startrek.website 6 months ago
Isolinear chips have arrived.
logicbomb@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Optical communications, optical computers, optical storage.
MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 6 months ago
Why not yet?
Kyle_The_G@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I hope it’ll be like those communicators in the expanse, those things look fun.
Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
I want a glass computer that is on a manipulator strapped to my back that way it can float free and I can use both hands, then push a button to have it collapse back along the backside of my ribs.
jasondj@ttrpg.network 6 months ago
Pfft just wait till we figure out Xenonite.