Boffins at Southampton University will be presenting a new storage format this week. Able to store vast amounts of data for billions of years, it’s possible that the format will be used to record what we know about the world in its entirety.
Scientists at the University of Southampton have made a major step forward in the development of digital data storage that is capable of surviving for billions of years.
Using nanostructured glass, scientists from the University’sOptoelectronics Research Centre(ORC) have developed the recording and retrieval processes of five dimensional (5D) digital data by femtosecond laser writing.
The storage allows unprecedented properties including 360 TB/disc data capacity, thermal stability up to 1,000°C and virtually unlimited lifetime at room temperature (13.8 billion years at 190°C ) opening a new era of eternal data archiving. As a very stable and safe form of portable memory, the technology could be highly useful for organisations with big archives, such as national archives, museums and libraries, to preserve their information and records.
After my time at the uni I am not the biggest fan. But the grounds are nice. My main memory though is my sister falling in a little pond aged about 2 and my dad jumping in to pull her put.
Boffins at Southampton University will be presenting a new storage format this week. Able to store vast amounts of data for billions of years, it’s possible that the format will be used to record what we know about the world in its entirety.
Scientists at the University of Southampton have made a major step forward in the development of digital data storage that is capable of surviving for billions of years.
Using nanostructured glass, scientists from the University’sOptoelectronics Research Centre(ORC) have developed the recording and retrieval processes of five dimensional (5D) digital data by femtosecond laser writing.
The storage allows unprecedented properties including 360 TB/disc data capacity, thermal stability up to 1,000°C and virtually unlimited lifetime at room temperature (13.8 billion years at 190°C ) opening a new era of eternal data archiving. As a very stable and safe form of portable memory, the technology could be highly useful for organisations with big archives, such as national archives, museums and libraries, to preserve their information and records.
