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Innovative data storage on glass ensures longevity without deterioration, capable of preserving data for millennia without replication.
Microsoft's Silica Glass Hard Drive project, initiated four years ago, promises unprecedented durability, outlasting traditional SSDs by a significant margin.
Future Prospects: Microsoft aims to establish data centers equipped with glass hard drives, managed by automated systems.
Cutting-Edge Technology: Data encoding involves ultra-fast laser beams generating voxels - the 3D equivalent of pixels, controlled by advanced microscopic lenses for decoding.
Energy-Efficient Storage: Glass hard drives operate without electricity, utilizing robotic systems for data access and decryption, revolutionizing conventional data retrieval methods.
Microsoft now has the capability to store several terabytes of data, equivalent to 1.75 million songs or 3,500 movies on a single glass pane.
Microsoft indicates that the Silica project is evaluated to have significant potential but is still in the development phase. The initial cost of the project is high, with the majority allocated to data writing on glass, yet the maintenance expenses are much cheaper compared to current storage centers.
In the future, glass storage technology will become the foundation of Azure's global storage centers.
