Hitachi Creates Quartz Glass Archival Medium 116
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from the hand-me-that-data-crystal dept.
guttentag writes "Hitachi has announced (original press release in Japanese, translated to English) a new storage medium that uses a laser to imprint dots on a piece of quartz glass that correspond to binary code. The dots can be read with an optical microscope and appropriate software. The company says this medium is resistant to extreme heat, radiation, radio waves and should still be readable after a few hundred million years. It's intended as an archival format with data density similar to a music CD (40MB per square inch with 4 layers)."
No better way (Score:5, Funny)
Finally, a long term solution so that my great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great grandkids can see my baby pictures, listen to my Fallout Boy CDs, and watch my disturbing pr0n collection. I'll order a dozen!
The first thing to record (Score:5, Funny)
Dear Hitachi,
please record the video "Never Gonna Give You Up", so that all future generations are able to get rick-rolled. And label the disc "soft porn" to ensure they'll work at decoding the data.
Re:No better way (Score:5, Funny)
Finally, a long term solution so that my great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great grandkids can see my baby pictures, listen to my Fallout Boy CDs, and watch my disturbing pr0n collection. I'll order a dozen!
***DRM ERROR - Could Not Contact Authentication Server***
A few hundred million years later (Score:5, Funny)
Scientist 2 : Cool! What do they say?
Scientist 1 : We don't know, we need the software to decode them.
Scientist 2 : And where is the software?
Scientist 1 : We're pretty sure it's on one of the discs...
(Scientist 1 : Also, we need a running DRM server, whatever that may be)
Most Excellent! (Score:4, Funny)
100 million years, right?
' That means I can use this to store my music collection until I finally have time to categorize and playlist it.
Re:The first thing to record (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Most Excellent! (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Long term data archival (Score:4, Funny)
I don't know about bottles, but Sid Meier can put Civilization on a plastic disc.
Re:A few hundred million years later (Score:4, Funny)
I am Sparticus and my collection is amazing.
Re:The first thing to record (Score:3, Funny)
You mean to tell me nobody else does that now?