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Microsoft's glass data storage system saves terabytes for 10,000 years (newatlas.com)

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[–] cheery_coffee@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Realistically I think this will only be used for short (sub 100 years) storage, or archives like a microfiche archive that are in continuous use.

There are quite a few use cases where a government or company might be obligated to keep data for long periods.

I’m curious about the 10,000 year claim, does that apply to the full plate, or is that average time to fail per some unit of data?

[–] MxM111@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Since I am sure error correction code is used, it is one and the same.