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This piece of glass holds 5TB for 10,000 years 💾👀 #trendingshorts #tech #research #science
Rowan Cheung
Microsoft has been working on Project Silica for nearly a decade, and this month marked its biggest leap yet.
The research phase is now officially complete, and the system no longer requires rare, expensive glass.
It now works with the same heat-resistant material found in Pyrex cookware. That solves what was previously the biggest barrier to real-world deployment.
The glass stores nearly 5 terabytes of data in a coaster-sized slab, needs no power to maintain it, and is immune to heat, water, and magnetic fields that would destroy conventional storage within decades.
Microsoft has already used it to archive the 1978 Superman film and partnered with the Global Music Vault to preserve recordings under Arctic ice.
You can read more about it in their latest research paper, details below👇
Study: “Laser writing in glass for dense, fast and efficient archival data storage” published in Nature
DOI: 10.1038/s41586-025-10042-w
The research phase is now officially complete, and the system no longer requires rare, expensive glass.
It now works with the same heat-resistant material found in Pyrex cookware. That solves what was previously the biggest barrier to real-world deployment.
The glass stores nearly 5 terabytes of data in a coaster-sized slab, needs no power to maintain it, and is immune to heat, water, and magnetic fields that would destroy conventional storage within decades.
Microsoft has already used it to archive the 1978 Superman film and partnered with the Global Music Vault to preserve recordings under Arctic ice.
You can read more about it in their latest research paper, details below👇
Study: “Laser writing in glass for dense, fast and efficient archival data storage” published in Nature
DOI: 10.1038/s41586-025-10042-w
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