Microsoft Repositions 7TB 'Project Silica' Glass Media as a Cloud Storage SolutionQuentinCallaghan@sopuli.xyz to Technology@beehaw.org – 63 points – 9 months agotomshardware.com17Post a CommentPreviewYou are viewing a single commentView all comments Microsoft asserts that the 7 TB storage per glass sheet maintains data integrity for 10,000 years. Imagine people 10,000 years from now finding a 7tb homework folder of high resolution ponies.Imagine dropping said sheet of glass and losing 7tb of your dataPresumably you can store the glass in a metal case with some padding? It's not gonna be much more fragile than a hard drive.Some current HDD platters are already made of glass or ceramic.I would think it's just not made for portable use but for storing data at a data centerOopsie doopsie.1 more...
Microsoft asserts that the 7 TB storage per glass sheet maintains data integrity for 10,000 years. Imagine people 10,000 years from now finding a 7tb homework folder of high resolution ponies.Imagine dropping said sheet of glass and losing 7tb of your dataPresumably you can store the glass in a metal case with some padding? It's not gonna be much more fragile than a hard drive.Some current HDD platters are already made of glass or ceramic.I would think it's just not made for portable use but for storing data at a data centerOopsie doopsie.1 more...
Imagine dropping said sheet of glass and losing 7tb of your dataPresumably you can store the glass in a metal case with some padding? It's not gonna be much more fragile than a hard drive.Some current HDD platters are already made of glass or ceramic.I would think it's just not made for portable use but for storing data at a data centerOopsie doopsie.
Presumably you can store the glass in a metal case with some padding? It's not gonna be much more fragile than a hard drive.Some current HDD platters are already made of glass or ceramic.I would think it's just not made for portable use but for storing data at a data center
Imagine people 10,000 years from now finding a 7tb homework folder of high resolution ponies.
Imagine dropping said sheet of glass and losing 7tb of your data
Presumably you can store the glass in a metal case with some padding? It's not gonna be much more fragile than a hard drive.
Some current HDD platters are already made of glass or ceramic.
I would think it's just not made for portable use but for storing data at a data center
Oopsie doopsie.