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This long-term data storage will last 14 billion years (www.theregister.com)
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"the medium is silica crystal, similar to optical cable, it's highly durable. It's also capacious: The technology can store up to 360 TB of data on a 5-inch glass platter."

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[–] ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.com 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

CD-R and CD-RW discs use different methods of data encoding, and were never advertised as having similar longevity.

I mean...sorry, but this is wrong. Mitsui CDRs for example are still being sold on retail sites advertising 100+ (and sometimes 300+) year longevity. Similar to bitrot, internet rot makes it hard to find advertisements from the 90s, but I am comfortable that was true then too and not limited to "gold" high quality discs like Mitsui.