This piece of glass holds 5TB for 10,000 years 💾👀 #trendingshorts #tech #research #science

Microsoft just etched nearly 5 terabytes of data into a piece of glass the size of a coaster. And it's supposed to survive for 10,000 years. This is Project Silica, a storage system that uses ultra-fast lasers to write data directly into glass. Each laser pulse lasts 1 trillionth of a second and carves microscopic structures called voxels into 301 layers inside ordinary glass. The same kind that your food storage container is probably made out of. To read the data, a microscope

captures images of each layer and an image recognition model decodes the patterns with zero errors. The glass needs no power to maintain this data. It's immune to heat, water, radiation, and magnetic fields that would normally wipe conventional hard drives over the years. Accelerated aging tests predict the data will survive past 10,000 years at room temperature, twice as long as the oldest known writing in the world.

Today's cloud archives consume enormous amounts of energy just keeping the data alive on degrading magnetic tape. But glass storage needs none of that. Microsoft is targeting cloud providers, national archives, and media companies as potential customers for this. The write speeds are still slower than conventional storage, but for data to last thousands of

years, the tradeoff might be worth it. years, the tradeoff might be worth it. If you want to stay in the loop with the latest in AI and robotics, follow for more.