Azerbaijan National Academy of Science

The head of the FPI laboratory Ivan Glebov said that such a disk can store data for 100 thousand years, withstand fire, water and cosmic radiation.

The production of Russian information discs from quartz glass for commercial use will begin by 2021, before that they will be tested in libraries and archives. This was told in an interview with TASS by the head of the Laboratory of Laser Nanostructuring of Glass (a joint project of the Russian Chemical and Technological University named after DI Mendeleyev and the Foundation for Advanced Studies) Ivan Glebov.

According to him, such a disk can save data for 100 thousand years, withstand fire, water and cosmic radiation. "We are planning to launch pilot projects jointly with the Russian Book Chamber, the Russian State Library, some state archives by 2019, and by 2021 the launch of pilot production is planned to bring the" eternal disk "to the commercial market," he said.

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