{"id":129742,"date":"2021-10-31T08:24:03","date_gmt":"2021-10-31T15:24:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/5d-optical-storage-high-speed-laser-writing-could-pack-500-terabytes-into-cd-sized-glass-disc"},"modified":"2021-10-31T08:24:03","modified_gmt":"2021-10-31T15:24:03","slug":"5d-optical-storage-high-speed-laser-writing-could-pack-500-terabytes-into-cd-sized-glass-disc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/5d-optical-storage-high-speed-laser-writing-could-pack-500-terabytes-into-cd-sized-glass-disc","title":{"rendered":"5D Optical Storage: High-Speed Laser Writing Could Pack 500 Terabytes Into CD-Sized Glass Disc"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/5d-optical-storage-high-speed-laser-writing-could-pack-500-terabytes-into-cd-sized-glass-disc2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Advances make high-density, 5D optical storage practical for long-term data archiving.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Researchers have developed a fast and energy-efficient laser-writing method for producing high-density nanostructures in silica glass. These tiny structures can be used for long-term five-dimensional (5D) optical data storage that is more than 10,000 times denser than Blue-Ray optical disc storage technology.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIndividuals and organizations are generating ever-larger datasets, creating the desperate need for more efficient forms of data storage with a high capacity, low energy consumption and long lifetime,\u201d said doctoral researcher Yuhao Lei from the University of Southampton in the UK. \u201cWhile cloud-based systems are designed more for temporary data, we believe that 5D data storage in glass could be useful for longer-term data storage for national archives, museums, libraries or private organizations.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Advances make high-density, 5D optical storage practical for long-term data archiving. Researchers have developed a fast and energy-efficient laser-writing method for producing high-density nanostructures in silica glass. These tiny structures can be used for long-term five-dimensional (5D) optical data storage that is more than 10,000 times denser than Blue-Ray optical disc storage technology. \u201cIndividuals and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-nanotechnology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129742\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}