This sounded like Science fiction to me until I read the article.
April 28, 2016 Mohit Kumar
Microsoft is planning to drastically change the future of data storage technology as we know it today.
The volume and rate of production of data being produced and stored every day are so fast that the servers and hard drives needing to be replaced periodically, potentially increasing the risk of corruption and data loss.
According to stats, 5.4 zettabytes (4.4 trillion gigabytes) of digital data, circulating and available worldwide, had been created by 2015, and it will boost to 54 zettabytes (ZB) by 2020.
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I think, unless I am very much mistaken, that this 'idea' has actually been used in a scifi series...cannot remember exactly which one. As with many futuristic items that have been seen in this type of programme, it looks like slowly slowly some of these are becoming reality.
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