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[–] loops@beehaw.org 55 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Microsoft asserts that the 7 TB storage per glass sheet maintains data integrity for 10,000 years.

Imagine people 10,000 years from now finding a 7tb homework folder of high resolution ponies.

[–] Micromot@feddit.de 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Imagine dropping said sheet of glass and losing 7tb of your data

[–] ReadyUser30@beehaw.org 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Presumably you can store the glass in a metal case with some padding? It's not gonna be much more fragile than a hard drive.

[–] pbjamm@beehaw.org 6 points 1 year ago

Some current HDD platters are already made of glass or ceramic.

[–] Micromot@feddit.de 4 points 1 year ago

I would think it's just not made for portable use but for storing data at a data center

[–] XTornado@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

Oopsie doopsie.