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Electronics giant, Hitachi, the AFP news wire is reporting, via Endgadget, has invented a new way to store electronic data onto a type of glass that won't degrade over time the way CDs and volatile memory will, opening up the possibility of storing data for hundreds, thousands or even millions of years. Gizmag says the new data storage material isn't likely to catch on due to the extraordinary duration of its viability, but because it's apparently impervious to most disaster scenarios, which means many companies large and small might be interested in adding a device that could write to such glass material to ensure the survival of critical data in the event of catastrophe. Unfortunately, despite the claims by Hitachi, the new glass does have one tiny little Achilles heel, it can be broken as easily as a drinking glass. But that's not the point of course, as the AFP points out. Huge data centers like those run by Amazon, Google or Apple Computer aren't worried about having their hard drives smashed, their worried about degradation, or entropy, two of nature's ways of reminding us all that we're only visiting here for a very short time. Both cause hard drives to fail after extended use, due to friction, corrosion, heat expansion and contraction, etc. This new glass data storage material is impervious to all of that, and can withstand being submerged in water (yes, data centers are at a flood risk due to all the plumbing involved to help keep hardware cool) and heated to thousands of degrees under a flame. Thus data would be safe from the threat of both fire and flood, which would not only help data center operators breathe easier, but would likely pull smiles from the bean counters as the new technology would do away with huge insurance bills. The new glass technology is based on two aspects, Gizmag says; first, the team had to invent a kind of glass that could do all the things just mentioned, after that, they had to figure out a way to encode data on it. The first they achieved by some secret means they will never divulge, the second was accomplished by pitting the glass inside with a special kind of laser beam. Thus, reading data off the glass uses the same sort of laser in reverse. The process allows for storing 40 megabyes of data per square inch which is approximately the same density as a common CD, which means the glass media wouldn't take up any more space than a warehouse full of CDs, making backup very inexpensive, and far less risky than ever before. |
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