Posts by roadrunner66

Veteran vulture Andrew Orlowski is offski after 19 years at The Register

Apart from the creepy climate change denial, no comment.

Microsoft's Pelican brief, MAID in Azure* and femtosecond laser glass storage

numbers are for 3D inch cube , not 5 layers of a square

The numbers as given don't add up. It would take a 3D cube (not a square) of 1-inch side length to store 8 bit data at 5um spacing to get 33.5 TB.

So the problem of reading or writing that cube would involve handling 1016 slices of quartz of 25 um thickness each very fast w/o them touching ( they would bind, as utilized in optical contacting). I know that handling a 100 um slice of quartz with a 1in diameter (as used in some waveplates) is challenging.

It would make more sense to make a tape of even thinner glass (like a fiber), but still you'd need an isolation layer to keep neighboring glass layers from binding.