Nova Spivack
@novaspivack · Dec 2, 2017
These are written by femtosecond laser on quartz silica glass. Data is encoded digitally as 20nm gratings formed by plasma disruptions from the laser pulses. Each dot encodes 8 bits in 5 dimensions of light. Theoretical capacity of 360TB per disk, stable for 14B+ years. @elonmusk
Elon Musk
@elonmusk
That’s certainly the right way to go to store massive amounts of data for a long time
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