Imagine being an explorer, cracking open a 10,000-year-old tomb, uncovering a priceless ancient artifact – and getting rickrolled. Our deep descendants might just get the pleasure, thanks to a Global Music Vault due to be built in Norway, featuring Microsoft’s Project Silica, a tough new data…
“Check it out, I’ve got terabytes on this small sheet of glass!”
proceeds to drop the glass
“Well… shit.”
proceeds to drop the hard drive
“Well… shit.”
I mean a solid state drive is probably going to have a better chance of surviving a drop than one made of glass. A platter drive, yeah, fair.
proceeds to drop the off site data center
“Well… shit. There goes my 3-2-1 backup strategy.”
The metal platters, if not literally sliced with a chainsaw or drilled down, can be removed and read for data access, the glass cannot.