#longtermdatastorage — Public Fediverse posts

The Register: Microsoft’s Project Silica promises eternal storage. It can’t get there from here. “Microsoft says that deployed at cloud scale, commercialized optical storage in glass is the only plausible, scalable solution for ultra-reliable, long-term data storage. That’s almost certainly right, and it will almost certainly never happen.”

The Register: Microsoft boffins cook up archival storage using Pyrex glass they say can last over 10,000 years. “Microsoft this week detailed new research aimed at preserving data in borosilicate glass plates for thousands of years longer than conventional media like hard drives or magnetic tape, without needing to worry about bit rot.”