Seagate is Working on Glass-Based Storage Units

The world is a big digitalization process, and this increases the need for larger storage units. Experts say that by 2025, 6 times more data will be produced compared to 2018, and this data will be approximately 175 zettabytes They predict it will be large. Of course, the increase in high-resolution videos and the development of IoT technologies are the number one reason for the emergence of larger data.

• Notes: 1 zettabyte, 1 million terabytes appears as. If expectations come true, we will start talking about trillion terabytes of data in the coming years.

Storage unit manufacturers on the future of storage units partner They have an opinion. This view is the basis for the storage solutions we will encounter in the coming years. glass material It should be based. Moreover, there are various studies on this subject. For example; Microsoft's “Project SilicaWithin the scope of their study titled ", engineers managed to collect 75.6 TB of data on a piece of silica found on a hard disk that is only 2.5 inches in size. 

The world's largest storage units at the moment 20TB They offer large size and are in 3.5 inch form. So Microsoft's Project Silica work is extremely exciting. Inspired by Microsoft's project Seagate is also working on glass storage solutions.

CTO of Seagate, one of the first companies that comes to mind when it comes to storage units John Morris, excited those who follow the industry closely with his statements. Morris, Seagate's R&D efforts for laboratory glass storage solutions that you continue explained. We can say that this statement will also affect storage unit manufacturers such as Samsung, Toshiba and even Western Digital.

Glass-based storage units have some challenges to overcome. difficulties there is. For example, such storage units are still read-only. In other words, data is currently written to these storage units only once. However, what is needed is to be able to be written many times and read many times. Touching on this issue, Morris said that the main difficulty is at reasonable levels He states that the aim is to develop units that can read and write.

The internet speed used worldwide has just reached terabit sizes. not. This is another challenge for glass-structured storage units. Let's say you have a storage unit of this size and you want to back up the data stored in the volume on cloud platforms. If you start doing something like this with current internet speeds, you may end up seeing the backup finish. your life will not be enough. But no matter what, trillion terabytes of data sounds pretty impressive.