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.
  • HiddenLayer555@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    12 hours ago

    So basically an optical drive on steroids?

    You know what I really want for long term offline backup storage? To go back to the bare discs with external readers paradigm of optical media (not sure if it’s possible with this though). Don’t have to pay for dedicated mechanical components in every drive that inevetably have a limited lifespan even if they’re just sitting in storage, and once they fail the recorded media itself is useless until you pay out the nose to get them transplanted into a new drive.