Seagate has confirmed it is working on optical data storage.
There is a growing consensus among storage manufacturers worldwide that glass could become a vital component in the drive to satiate humanity’s thirst for data storage.
Fuelled by the rise in demand high resolution video and growing IoT networkd, IDC predicts the world will produce 175 zettabytes (ZB) of data by 2025, nearly six times more than in 2018.
Given one ZB is equal to one billion TB, it would be reasonable to assume that we will have reached the mind-boggling trillion terabyte mark by the end of the decade.
