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

  • wason@lemmy.ninja
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    1 year ago

    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?

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      1 year ago

      They’re being so vague with the numbers that I really doubt how mature any of this is. Given some of the examples (photos, music, War & Peace) I’m guessing 3TB or so, but it’s a fluff article, so who knows.

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      1 year ago

      I imagine it would depend on the size of the plate and the degree to which correcting codes are used for redundancy.

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      1 year ago

      Just out of curiosity, I calculated that the article’s (War and Peace * 875,000) claim would net you less than 1TB of storage space (~973GB), assuming it was GZipped (and ~3x that if not).

      The most concrete number we have is from another article (also on an official Microsoft page) that claims it’s upwards of 7TB.