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Microsoft has etched palm-sized slabs of ordinary glass into data “books” capable of storing 4.8 terabytes — the equivalent of roughly 2M books or 200 4K movies (www.nature.com)
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[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 28 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

Oh, look, it's the latest mass storage tech that will never be commercially produced!

[–] cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 6 hours ago

It's for archival of data that needs to be stored for thousands of years, not for consumer use.