China Achieves Mass Production Breakthrough with 360TB Glass Hard Drives Researchers at Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST) have achieved small-scale mass production of glass-based hard drives, a breakthrough that could transform enterprise cold data storage. Each glass disc can store a staggering 360 terabytes of data across 400 stacked layers, using laser "carving" technology that writes data into the internal structure of the glass medium.
    • douglasg14b@lemmy.world
      4·
      4 hours ago

      At 10MB/s it’d take you 416 days if constant writes to fill it up.

      EXTREMELY slow archival.

      At least for now, till it gets better

      • Dave.@aussie.zone
        6·
        3 hours ago

        If you’re not creating more than 800GB a day of new data you can just let it run with a faster drive as a buffer in front of it.

        Or get 10 of them and run them in parallel. Maybe get 11 and throw in a bit of parity, just in case bitrot surfaces after the first 1000 years or something.

      • Mihies@programming.dev
        2·
        3 hours ago

        Let’s say I want to preserve my computer disks when I do a major change (i.e. 10TB worth of NAS or just 4TB worth of workstation) or when I sell it or just throw it away. What do I do? Time is not essential. Or as others said, store photos and other large files. It’s for archival, not for backup purposes.