The French will develop hard drive who'll be able to keep your Facebook statuses for more than a million years. For the sake of humanity and yourself, the drive will be not used for that.
French nuclear waste manager ANDRA plans to develop drives that can store data for about million years. The life expectancy of today's commercial drives is about ten years.
The drives will be made from two fused disk platters made from sapphire with data written in a microscope-readable platinum. One disk can store 40.000 pages of text and pictures. Once this is completed, both drives will be molecular merged together. The price of a drive is about $25,000.
On the drives, warnings for nuclear waste and radioactive materials that are stored on the company will be written, plus instructions for handling them.
According to the scientists from ANDRA, the purpose of the drive is "to provide information for future archaeologists." The only problem for them is that they still can't decide on which language to write the text that people would understand million years from now.
