China Achieves Mass Production Breakthrough with 360TB Glass Hard Drives
Researchers at Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST) have achieved small-scale mass production of glass-based hard drives, a breakthrough that could transform enterprise cold data storage. Each glass disc can store a staggering 360 terabytes of data across 400 stacked layers, using laser "carving" technology that writes data into the internal structure of the glass medium.
Good for write once read many applications with the 200 MB/s read speed though. Things like research data or torrents that gets recorded once and not changed again. Then again that’s the upper limit and the lower limit of 50 MB/s is pretty shit even for that.
Though 10 MB/s is literally 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi speeds so it might still be too slow to be practical for such a large drive.