Most durable digital storage medium

According to Official Guinness Records,

The most durable digital storage medium is stable at room temperature for 300 quintillion years, a material created by researchers from the University of Southampton’s Optoelectronics Research Centre, as published on 23 January 2014.The material, a nanostructured glass disc, also has an estimated lifetime of 13.8 billion years (roughly the current age of the universe) at elevated temperature of 462 K (190 C), and a capacity of 360 TB. It has been hailed as a particularly significant invention, as no other existing storage medium can so safely ensure that data will be accessible by future generations.

For a complete list of 2014 records, please visit 2014 Guinness Records in United Kingdom.

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