Microsoft's Project Silica has stored 4.84TB in borosilicate glass with a 10,000-year lifespan, but slow 66 Mb/s write speeds limit commercial viability.

Soon turned out, we had a heart of glass Opinion There is more joy in heaven over a single report of genuinely new technology than in a thousand desperate AI marketing pitches. What the angels will ...

Microsoft Research has published a peer-reviewed paper describing a complete glass-based archival storage system that can hold 4.8 terabytes of data on a single disc, with researchers estimating the ...

The last time we talked about Microsoft's Project Silica was about four years ago when Microsoft was showing off a proof of concept. The company managed to write Warner Bros' Superman movie on a tiny ...

Explore how Microsoft Project Silica glass uses borosilicate glass memory for ultra-durable, 10,000-year data storage and archival glass storage tech that could transform long-term cloud archives.

Recap: It's been nearly four years since we first heard about Project Silica, a Microsoft Research project tasked with storing digital data on sheets of glass. At the time, Microsoft was able to ...

Storing up to 7TB of data on something the size of a DVD might not sound all that groundbreaking in a time where SSD storage with that sort of capacity is notably smaller in physical stature.

As data storage becomes ever cheaper, many of us have accumulated gigabytes (or even terabytes) of it that must be kept safe. Whether you're storing your data locally or in the cloud, the storage ...

Boffins at the software king of the world, Microsoft, have emerged from their smoke-filled labs with a piece of glass which they say can store data for more than 10,000 years. In Nature on 18 February ...

Microsoft Research, a research institute for Microsoft, has announced that it has developed a technology called 'Project Silica,' which uses a femtosecond laser to record data inside glass, enabling ...