Project Silica promises to store data in glass for millennia
- Writing a full 4.8TB glass disc takes more than 18 days — far too slow for daily operations
- Cheaper borosilicate glass reduces costs but cannot fix practical limitations
- Microsoft’s statement signals closure rather than a commitment to future development
Microsoft has offered a fresh update on Project Silica, its long-running effort to store digital information inside glass plates for centuries.
Not a success apparently. It's an interesting idea, but we are bound to ask if we have much data worth storing for millennia.
Rather than dwell on the worthwhile data, it is much easier to think of data which isn't worth storing for millennia. For example.
A speech by Keir Starmer.
Details of Net Zero projects.
TV programmes.
A selection of jokes.
A speech by Keir Starmer.
Details of Net Zero projects.
TV programmes.
A selection of jokes.
Copies of the Guardian.
We're drowning in it.
6 comments:
There Doctor Frankenstein I've polished out all those scratches on the glass plates for you.
If only Ed Miliband had thought of this instead of the stone…
Only an hour ago, the plastic case I used to have for about 100 floppy discs fell apart, and chucked all the seed packets I store in it, all over the kitchen floor...
A floppy held 1.4mb of data, and I still have a few from the long distant past, mouldering in the roof, for someone to decipher when I eventually shuffle off this mortal CD rom...
DJ - But they were my notes on the wooden son I never quite finished for the village toolmaker, now forever incomplete until woodworm finally takes its toll.
Macheath - that would have been a useful wheeze, much easier to lose than a huge slab of stone.
Scrobs - a reminder of how things have changed though, one of those floppy discs wouldn't hold a single photo taken with my phone.
We could call that data, "What not to do when restarting the human race after an extinction event"
Bucko - ha ha, that's easily the best use of it.
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