Tech giant Microsoft’s Project Silica could transform data storage, using glass plates that can hold terabytes of information for thousands of years.
A coaster-size glass plate could hold the key to sustainable data storage in the future. Project Silica is Microsoft’s experimental venture into glass storage, with its silica-based glass plates being posited as a cleaner solution to data storage.
It is suggested that Project Silica plates could store data for thousands of years and hold up to several terabytes of information. (TM)