I just hope this takes off so the market gets flooded with cheap LTO tapes and drives for us amateur archivists
I love the little robots
silicon storage heaven
There is no such thing!
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.
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.
Some current HDD platters are already made of glass or ceramic.
I have some questions: How fast are read and write operations and random access? What are the expected prices, once it hit mass production for the average consumer? And how long is expected to take until this happens?
From the article it seems to be write once and then it is read only. As reading requires mechanical movement (for now), I would guess that random reads are quite slow.
So I guess the first application would be archives, and then later it could be used like a CD.
Which would beat current LTO tape, that’s the real goal they have. It’s not replacing hard drives, random read time isn’t important, it’s archive. Tape can be real finicky to store at volume, but it’s amazing at archiving. A single tape can now natively hold well over 20TB and doesn’t need to be kept powered on.
