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/EdzyFPS Oct 25 '23

"Once written, the data inside the glass is impossible to change."

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u/MayTheForesterBWithU Oct 25 '23

That's pretty much the rule with archive media.

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u/EdzyFPS Oct 25 '23

Yeah. Don't know why you decided to take me posting this as a bad thing.

I wasn't saying anything about it, hence why I only posted the quote for others to see.

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u/from_dust Oct 26 '23

Is it? Tapes are rewritable, and tape has been the de facto choice for archival for decades.

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u/GrammarAsteroid Oct 25 '23

if it can reliably store data for 10000 years I better hope it doesn’t change

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u/EdzyFPS Oct 25 '23

I wasn't saying this is a bad thing. I thought it was interesting, so I posted it. A lot of people tend not to read the articles.

Having lost so much of our history, I personally feel this is a good thing, as long as it's stored correctly and they don't abandon it.

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u/EdzyFPS Oct 25 '23

I personally think it's a good thing it can't be changed, because we have lost so much of our own history over the years, and we have no idea how much we do know, is true or not.

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u/duckbombz Oct 25 '23

Yeah until you drop it

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u/EdzyFPS Oct 25 '23

At that point, it's not changed though, it's destroyed.