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Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Data storage?

Taken from:  http://gizmodo.com/5946110/this-piece-of-glass-can-store-data-forever

Hmmm ... data that doesn't die?

The article had this:


Data, like all things, eventually dies. Your music, your movies, your documents, your files, your computer. You don't expect it to live forever but... what if it did? Hitachi claims that they've developed a new quartz glass plate that can store data forever.
CDs and hard drives can only last for a few decades or a century at most, this new quartz glass can "endure extreme temperatures and hostile conditions without degrading, almost forever." How does it work? The data is stored in binary form with dots inside a thin sheet of quartz glass. The data is read with an ordinary optical microscope. 
So, if I really want something to last for hundreds of years, I will be putting it on this quartz glass plate (maybe).  I can't think of anything that I might want to last that long!!!  

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