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Invented a disc that can store data for 1000 years

Изобретен диск, который может хранить данные 1000 летInvented a unique disk, which stores the information a record amount of time.

Despite the fact that the popularity of CDs are already in the past, the company Verbatim boasted the creation of new optical Blu-ray disk MDISC, whose capacity was 100 GB.

The main feature of the new drive is not the volume, and the fact that it is able to store information for more than thousand years. For comparison, most digital storage media can store data for longer than decade.

Verbatim uses in the production of these discs have special patented layer of titanium, which is resistant to the effects of light, temperature and humidity. Such disks are already using the museums, libraries and archives.

Blu-ray discs from Verbatim MDISC compatible with any Blu-ray disc drives that support BDXL, which is almost all models that were released in the last year and a half. In addition, the MDISC drives are more reliable. According to the calculations Verbatim, at a temperature of 25 degrees Celsius and 50% relative humidity for more than 1,000 years of use number of failures per 100 000 disks does not exceed one. This means that data can be stored on such optical storage for centuries.

External hard drive 100GB BDXL MDISC are sold in packs of five or singly. Also commercially available single-layer version with a capacity of 50 and 25 GB, and a DVD disk of 4.7 GB.

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