News Microsoft Repositions 7TB 'Project Silica' Glass Media as a Cloud Storage Solution

[PrimalNaCl]

Rowstron is a disingenuous jerkface wrt the tape longevity comment. LTO has a 30 year integrity-stable shelf-life.

10 years...freaking AH!

 

[Co BIY]

Did they just try to bad mouth tape storage and say it can last only 10 years?

Tape is actually more than a decade and the storage is cheap. It's the actual hardware that's expensive.

Looks like it would be the same for glass. It's the machine to read the media that has to stay up to date.

Mesopotamian cuneiform tablets are still readable but the readers are rare and expensive.

Cuneiform writer/reader - Some maker with a Pi should run with that.

 

[bit_user]

For being in the very early stages, this is pretty impressive stuff. It will only get better over time. Everyone remembers what hard drives looked like in their early stages, right?

People these days are expecting perfection off the start line. That's not how technology works, gentlemen.

Oh, but you have the "overtaking technology" problem, where it's incredibly difficult to push a new technology to the point where it can supersede an old one, because the old one has so much experience and money going into continually improving it that it becomes a moving target.