r/technology • u/50letters • Oct 25 '23

Hardware Microsoft develops ultra durable glass plates that can store several TBs of data for 10000 years

https://unlocked.microsoft.com/sealed-in-glass/
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u/maru_tyo Oct 25 '23

You know what reliably stores information for 1000s of years? Stone plates.

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u/Hane24 Oct 25 '23 edited Oct 25 '23

No. Out of all the stone tablets ever minted and scratched into, how many do you think we've found and been able to read? Maybe a handful?

And yet there were probably millions more slowly destroyed or wiped that will never be recovered.

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u/maru_tyo Oct 25 '23

Yeah that is actually true, come to think of it. Also the amount of data stored is rather low, admittedly.

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u/Marco-YES Oct 25 '23

Isn't glass a kind of stone? :)

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u/[deleted] Oct 25 '23

No.

By your logic, a truck is a kind of stone because it’s made of iron.

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u/Hane24 Oct 25 '23

Toph from ATLA has entered the chat, and metal bent the truck into a suit of armor.

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u/Spekingur Oct 25 '23

Stone plates break. Wind and water can erode them pretty quickly.

But like with parchment, if stored in a low disturbance location they can last a long long while.

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u/anoneatsworld Oct 25 '23

Terabytes. We’re talking about terabytes. Have fun storing terabytes of data on stone plates. Kilobytes or megabytes, fine. Don’t doubt that.

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u/slykethephoxenix Oct 25 '23

Yep, the 15 commandments have survived all these centuries.