Microsoft shows off glass-based long-term data storage system

[Solarion]

Thinking the great vault of humanity.

 

[_TrXtR_]

"roughly 1.75 million songs or 13 years’ worth of music."

1.75 million songs != 1.75 million songs
#justsaying

 

[MrGray]

But isn't glass a very slow moving liquid...

No, it's an "amorphous solid" and it would take longer than the lifetime of the universe for a pane of glass to appear melted... apparently.

Fact or Fiction?: Glass Is a (Supercooled) Liquid

Are medieval windows melting?

www.scientificamerican.com