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 A good quality hard disk can last for several years. However, in the end it's mechanical data storage medium will be damaged that could potentially destroy all data in it.

Estimated lifetime hard disk (mean time between failure MTBF) has been enacted since coming out of the factory, usually in a matter of hundreds of thousands of hours.

Then, how to have the data stored in the hard disk remain durable in the long term? Well, the research team from the Office of French nuclear waste control have made a prototype ANDRA hard disk lifetime very long, reaching 10 million years.

The purpose of the creation of super durable hard disk it is giving information to people in the future who happened to find the locations of nuclear waste disposal ANDRA. The contents of information more or less explains about the nuclear waste buried at that location and the correct way of handling.

This super Hard disk made of Sapphire and the information in it was recorded through a platinum sculpture. Data storage disc has two pieces, each 20 cm. in diameter Fare construction reached 25,000 US dollars. The estimated age of the hard disk that is obtained through simulated aging with merendamnya in the fluid.

In addition to the type of material, the difference with this super hard disk hard disk includes regular perakaman its data method. Regular Hard disk recording digital data in magnetic patterns, while hard disks store data in homemade ANDRA carved image size is very small.

One disc could hold about 40,000 pictures. People in the future will no longer be needed a computer to read data in it. All it takes is a microscope.

Even if the hard disk has been making highly durable, there is still one problem to be solved by researchers before place it in place of ANDRA manufacture nuclear waste. "We don't yet know the information must be written in what language," said Patrick Charton from ANDRA.

This one issue is indeed somewhat strange because the language used to communicate would have changed much in millions of years. While the information in the hard disk should be understandable by anyone who finds it in the future, even if still humanoid.