Microsoft's Project Silica

2021 Media Shipments Exabytes Revenue $/GB Flash 598 $68.6B $0.115 Hard Disk 1418 $28.0B $0.020 LTO Tape 59.2 $0.51B $0.003 I summed up my big picture view of archival media eight years ago in Archival Media: Not a Good Business . Whatever your choice of technology, the economics are brutal. This is a version of the table in that post, updated to 2021 and again based upon IBM data . Note that…