They may soon hold a terabyte and eventually 10 terabytes or more. Each wafer holds 100 gigabytes of music, or a little over 2,000 songs. The team can encode music with super-fast laser pulses that etch 3D nanoscale patterns into thin three-inch quartz glass wafers. Microsoft was already working on a long-term storage solution-a technology critical for purposes beyond music-known as Project Silica, when they partnered with Elire. Hard drives last about five years before they start to fail tape is good for no more than 10 years and CDs and DVDs last 15 years. So if eternity is the goal, what’s the best medium for the job? Your laptop or smartphone won’t do.
Whereas seeds are prepackaged, music is not. The Global Music Vault aims to match its neighbor seed for song. The Doomsday Vault houses the largest collection of agricultural seeds on the planet. The Global Music Vault will share space with the Global Seed Vault (better known as the Doomsday Vault) in Svalbard, Norway. The tech giant is partnering with Elire Group to etch the world’s music onto glass plates, and bury them in a remote arctic mountainside to ride out the end of the world. But thanks to Microsoft, at least we’ll be listening to Stevie Wonder after the apocalypse. War, disease, division-things aren’t looking too rosy for humanity at the moment.
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