7 TB glass storage media is now faster to write and "could last 10,000 years."

Imagine dropping said sheet of glass and losing 7tb of your data

Oopsie doopsie.

Presumably you can store the glass in a metal case with some padding? It’s not gonna be much more fragile than a hard drive.

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Some current HDD platters are already made of glass or ceramic.

I would think it’s just not made for portable use but for storing data at a data center

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