After nearly ten years of internal research and commercialization planning, Atlas Data Storage, a spin-off built on Twist ...

UK-based startup SPhotonix was formed in 2024 to commercialize what's known as 5D optical data storage, often referred to as "memory crystals." Essentially, the technique encodes ...

Alternative long-term media include optical discs rated for 5 to 100 years, with M-DISC advertising a lifespan of 1,000 years; however, nobody alive today can verify this claim. Current prototypes of ...

From enterprise flash to experimental archival media, these are ten technologies looking to replace traditional hard drives..

Forward-looking: Researchers at the University of Chicago have achieved a groundbreaking milestone, storing terabytes of digital data within a crystal cube just one millimeter in size. They ...