http://www.ign.com/articles/2016/02/16/five-dimensional-glass-discs-can-store-data-for-13-billion-years?abthid=56c3860eee29b23642000019

This disc can also last for 13 billion years apparently.

And people still think physical discs will disappear within the next decade? I'm not just talking about physical discs for video games, but for businesses and data centers discs are needed.

Crystals for data? This is in almost every sci-fi ever, very cool.

13 billion years assuming the sun doesn't go red giant and turn it into its constitute atoms before we get it away from the sun.


Edit - to bad we didn't have this technology back in the 70s when the Voyagers were launched.

Oh! Great. 13 billion years and the sun's going to burn out in 4 billion years. Well, I hope that they refund me for the unused portion.

Rabbit

Eternal data crystal, now there's Sci-FI for you

Doesn't sound easy or cheap to mass produce, though.

And it's only 360TB? So, only about a tenth of the porm on the internet?

Wow, I can only imagine the size of a Bethesda game that could fit on that. I'd have to retire and play 22 hours a day, 7 days a week just see a sizable fraction of it!

I wonder when TBs will become necessary for videogames. I'm not very knowledgeable about hardware factors, so I've no capacity to speculate.