Nanostructured Glass Could Provide Highly Durable, Deeply Dense Data Storage (phys.org)

Namarrgon writes: Using nanostructured glass, scientists from the University of Southampton's Optoelectronics Research Centre (ORC) have developed the recording and retrieval processes of five dimensional (position, size, and orientation) digital data by femtosecond laser writing. The storage allows unprecedented properties including 360 TB/disc data capacity, thermal stability up to 1,000ÂC and virtually unlimited lifetime at room temperature (13.8 billion years at 190ÂC) opening a new era of eternal data archiving.

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"a new era of eternal data archiving"

[Nutria]

As long as our descendants have the high technology to read it!!!

Re: "a new era of eternal data archiving"

[Anonymous Coward]

"I still have perfectly good floppy disks lying around. No way to read them."

If you have no way to read them... How do you know they are still perfectly good?

(Let's not let the discussion degenerate into a debate over whether the floppy disks are currently Shrodingered.)

Re: "a new era of eternal data archiving"

[qbast]

Dig site 12, artifact 2372: perfectly preserved glass discs. Assumed to be religious artifacts, associated with worship of the sun.

Re:Scratches

[stevelinton]

Just don't the top 0.1mm of the glass. You lose a few TB of capacity, but now the data is below any scratches.