SPhotonix is working towards commercializing its 5D optical "memory crystal" technology that uses lasers to write nanoscale data into durable fused‑silica glass. One 5‑inch disc can hold 360TB. The ...

Scientists at Microsoft Research in the United States have demonstrated a system called Silica for writing and reading ...

SPhotonix is the latest big name in 5D glass storage technology, and it's proving to be quite ambitious in its goal to bring the technology to market, estimating "another three or four years of R&D" ...

Borosilicate glass offers extreme stability; Microsoft’s accelerated aging experiments suggest the data would be stable for ...

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Microsoft’s Project Silica has achieved a breakthrough in data preservation by developing a high-density glass storage system capable of archiving digital data for thousands of years without ...

Microsoft’s Project Silica can store 5TB of data on glass for 10,000 years, offering a durable, energy-free solution to prevent data rot.

Glass nanostructures etched using high-intensity femtosecond laser pulses promise to keep vast quantities of data safe for billions of years, describe Peter Kazansky, Ausra Cerkauskaite and Rokas ...

For roughly a decade, Microsoft has been perfecting a high-density storage technology that uses glass, lasers, and cameras, ...

Project Silica promises to store data for millennia while facing impossible speeds and impractical costs for real use ...