Hitachi develops "incorruptible" glass-based data storage technique
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Hitachi's prototype quartz glass memory device (Photo: AFP/Yoshikazu TSUNO)
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Back when compact discs were first coming out, they were touted as being able to store data “forever.” As it turns out, given no more than a decade or so, they can and do degrade. According to an AFP report, Hitachi has unveiled a system that really may allow data to last forever – or at least, for several hundred million years. It involves forming microscopic dots within a piece of quartz glass, those dots serving as binary code.
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