Microsoft's Plan to Store Data in Quartz Glass Slabs

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A Microsoft plan to store multiple layers of archival data inside slabs of quartz glass is getting closer to becoming a product. The aim is to develop a cloud-scale archive media system for reading and writing data.

A Microsoft plan to store multiple layers of archival data inside slabs of quartz glass is getting closer to becoming a product. The aim is to develop a cloud-scale archive media system for reading and writing data. The encoding technology involves polarization-based patterns at points within a square glass slab, called voxels, which are produced using femtosecond laser pulses. Each voxel encodes 3 to 4 bits of data.

Voxels are organized into rectangular sectors, and a 3D set of sectors is called a track. The system can store multiple TB of data per platter

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