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Glass seems fairly promising. > Microsoft and Warner Bros. have collaborated to successfully store and retrieve the entire 1978 iconic “Superman” movie on a pi
by Andrex 5y ago
Glass seems fairly promising.
> Microsoft and Warner Bros. have collaborated to successfully store and retrieve the entire 1978 iconic “Superman” movie on a piece of glass roughly the size of a drink coaster, 75 by 75 by 2 millimeters thick.
> The hard silica glass can withstand being boiled in hot water, baked in an oven, microwaved, flooded, scoured, demagnetized and other environmental threats that can destroy priceless historic archives or cultural treasures if things go wrong.
> “One big thing we wanted to eliminate is this expensive cycle of moving and rewriting data to the next generation. We really want something you can put on the shelf for 50 or 100 or 1,000 years and forget about until you need it,” Rowstron said.
https://news.microsoft.com/innovation-stories/ignite-project-silica-superman/ https://news.microsoft.com/innovation-stories/ignite-project...
- myself248 5y agoBut I can't buy it for love or money, so AFAIC, it might as well not exist. Ditto with the mosquito-zapping laser that was supposed to change the world.
- XorNot 5y agoThis is really the storage technology I want. It's what CD-R's were promised to be (but came nowhere near delivering - organic dye is, well, organic). The big question I suppose is whether you can consumerize it. Though I suppose you could imagine the return of something like mall photobooths: you buy an organic dye substrate which something like a CD drive can write to, then drop it off to be "developed" into an impervious substrate by a harsher process (guessing there's an NH4F etch in that process).
- ksec 5y agoThat is the problem. Even if I am willing to pay $1K, which is a lot from a consumer perspective, it is tiny in the business world and the cost to commercialisation.
- BBC-vs-neolibs 5y agoIt's "just" a laser that burns "dents" inside the glass slab. So no chemicals involved.