Decades ago storing data was never as simple as technology has made it now by creating metal hard drives. These hard drives can keep data safe and accessible at all times for weeks, months and years. Whenever a user requires information stored in it he or she simply needs to connect it with a PC or laptop and voila. However, the current hard drives cannot hold information stored in them for millions of years, but now it seems that some Japanese researchers have found a solution for the problem. The researchers have created a small wafer like quartz glass that can keep data saved for hundreds and millions of years. This new invention is known as Quartz and it is a product of famous Japanese electronics manufacturing company, Hitachi.
According to Hitachi this piece of glass is just two millimetres thick and two centimetres wide and it contains several layers of dots that are binary-based and inlaid with throbs of light. Information from Quartz can be interpreted in binary form with the help of a laser reader scanner or through a normal optical microscope.
To the extent Quartz’s durability is concerned, it has been claimed that the tiny wafer can survive 1,000 C degree flames and it is also weather and water proof. In addition to this, Quartz cannot be grinded down even the slightest after hundreds of thousands of years.
Aside from keeping the data safe for a long time, Quartz could also prove useful for many other practical uses, particularly for departments, libraries and educational institutes, where loads of records are maintained.
So far Hitachi has not given any idea about the release of Quartz. Therefore, we all have to wait a little more to see this device become available for public use.
Source: TechVibes
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