Microsoft Repositions 7TB 'Project Silica' Glass Media as a Cloud Storage Solution (www.tomshardware.com)

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[-] Hirom@beehaw.org 16 points 11 months ago

It would be prescient for movies shot before 1996.

The concept is to store data optically in non-photosensitive transparent materials such as fused quartz, which has high chemical stability. Recording data using a femtosecond-laser was first proposed and demonstrated in 1996.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/5D_optical_data_storage

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