Storing data for thousands of years | Microsoft Project Silica

Hopefully, I can get my hand on one of these unique storage materials. A must for preserving family photos and videos for beyond a lifetime's worth!

5 years for a hdd...for just storage....I think that a little exaggerated

Wow this is exciting ... I can see clearly now where we are heading !

This is cool. This is why smart people should have more free time in order to do their research.

Where's my school folder? Oh wait.
Removes window

Now I hope someone doesn't accidentally dropped my glass backup (in the cloud) and I can't access my backups anymore.

I have been following this project since it was first publicly unveiled. It's simply amazing work.
In the future with advancements in cost, size, and complexity you could truly have a final form of consumer physical media. Imagine a fully uncompressed movie on one square of glass.

I want it to be consumer tech soo badly 🤯

Any large storage facility holding data will likely be destroyed in the future by an aggressor group, nation, or AI. Man's drive to self destruction renders everything impermanent in relatively short order.

A robotic librarian!

Reminds me of 2001 Space Odysseys, when Frank disconnects HAL

Glass is fluid...in time

But what if the glass break accidentally, will the data be lost or could it be retrieved by some means

Microsoft be like

"We can make data last forever"

Also Microsoft

"In a glass"

This is the coolest thing I’ve seen in a while.

everybody's gangsta until that glass breaks with some fairly small impact

Oops my data just fell down and broken into pieces.

So, it's like storing in CD but glass.

But it would be more prone to physical harassment, wouldn't it?

oh, optical storage again

Just dont give it to Linus Tech Tips

The tech is really exciting. The fact it’s in the hands of Microsoft, I’m not so sure. If they are the first ones to put this to market, let’s hope they won’t be too hard with patents and restrictions and that the tech can still spread healthily.

And not a single word dedicated to loss of the information on how to decode the data...

First partnership with the Hub (you know which one) 😂

Hulk smash

Hope this can be a time capsule stores all of humanity's history, art, literature, music, films, scientific discoveries and research and pop culture worth saving for posterity so that we do not have to start over if the world is destroyed and humanity decimated due to a natural or human made catastrophe.

Data - has a shelf life. Dump things older than a certain age. Watching color during ww2... that is long enough.

All fine and dandy, but when is the tech coming out for us the consumers?

Amazing technology, how The technology is made should be saved in a readable format by humans .

Super computer HAL 9000 glass operation modules in the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey , released 1968, a movie with vision ahead of its time! The M-DISC™ is probably the second best approach to long-term safe data storage, with a presumed 1000 year shelf life 😎

hey microsoft why you remove the alt tabing to the desctop function????

concrete the planet!
any factorio enjoyers?!

Very cool

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i hope the floor under the robots is padded to save from robot glitches or hardware failure droping them.
would aslo expedt its easy to emplot a raid like redundency on atleast another glass plate.

This is great and all, but do you think you guys could finally get around to fixing the Windows search function?

I have a question (a dumb one maybe), wasn't this the same concept used in CD's and DVD's? Can someone clarify if there's any difference.

One of these days we will be able to store the history of the universe in a leaf. Then we will have caught up to what nature has already done. By then we might be able to read a human body, leaf or rock and find out everything we want to know in the universe. The data is there - we are still learning to see it.

its a great idea but will it mean that accessing information from the server will be much slower because now the robot has to fetch the glass and then it is read before it is transmitted to the client??

Anyone else think these comments look extremely AI generated?

It's really not much different than how information is stored in current nand cells, the difference is that we change the material.I think this would be more feasible for the consumer if the same thing could be created but instead of glass, some resistant polymer was chosen, along with a kind of decoding machine (We return to the Walkman era, but instead of magnetic tapes and cassette decks, we will have glass cartridges)

I don't have faith in this honestly, I don't think so it's as reliable as they are making it

I would trust my balls to lion more then I would trust my data to Microsoft.

Sounds like similar implementation of Dr Stone.

so a new generation of CD?

Isn’t there a sand shortage?

Society moving into Altered Carbon, with shards.

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oh.....you mean DASD