Microsoft's Project Silica has stored 4.84TB in borosilicate glass with a 10,000-year lifespan, but slow 66 Mb/s write speeds ...

For roughly a decade, Microsoft has been perfecting a high-density storage technology that uses glass, lasers, and cameras, and ensures it stays intact for millennia. That's a huge improvement over ...

Project Silica is Microsoft's attempt at turning glass, not microchips, into a feasible medium for data storage with the use ...

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Microsoft Unveils Glass Storage That Could Preserve Data for 10,000 Years Your email has been sent Microsoft has just hit a major milestone in a project that could end the digital dark age. Their ...

A research team figured out a way to write data onto wafers of glass using lasers, and unlike, for example, a magnetic tape, ...

The last time we talked about Microsoft's Project Silica was about four years ago when Microsoft was showing off a proof of concept. The company managed to write Warner Bros' Superman movie on a tiny ...

Explore how Microsoft Project Silica glass uses borosilicate glass memory for ultra-durable, 10,000-year data storage and archival glass storage tech that could transform long-term cloud archives.

Recap: It's been nearly four years since we first heard about Project Silica, a Microsoft Research project tasked with storing digital data on sheets of glass. At the time, Microsoft was able to ...

Svalbard, Norway is home to the Global Seed Vault, also known as the Doomsday Vault, and "deep inside the same arctic mountain location," a Global Music Vault will preserve heaps of music stored on ...

Archival storage poses lots of challenges. We want media that is extremely dense and stable for centuries or more, and, ideally, doesn’t consume any energy when not being accessed. Lots of ideas have ...

Storing up to 7TB of data on something the size of a DVD might not sound all that groundbreaking in a time where SSD storage with that sort of capacity is notably smaller in physical stature.