After decades of research and development, humanity finally has a data storage medium that will outlast us.… The 5D Memory Crystal stores data by using tiny voxels – 3D pixels – in fused silica glass, ...

SPhotonix’s 5D memory crystal on a five-inch glass disc can reliably store up to 360TB Data in 5D crystals remains stable at 190 o Celsius indefinitely Current prototypes read data at roughly 30 MBps ...

That led Microsoft to declare, “Our results demonstrate that Silica could become the archival storage solution for the digital age.” That may be overselling it just a bit. The Square Kilometer Array ...

We know that while the cost per byte of persistent storage has dropped hugely over the years, it’s still a pain to fork out for a new disk drive. This must be why [MadAvidCoder] has taken a different ...

As data storage needs have grown over the years, so has the development of new technologies, such as Microsoft's Project Silica and diamond optical discs, which can make it easier to store large ...

Magnetic tape storage has a long history as a storage medium, being the primary way to store computer data from the 1960s to the 1980s. More recently, tape has been most closely associated with backup ...