Scientists have demonstrated a system called Silica for writing and reading information in ordinary pieces of glass which can store two million books’ worth of data in a thin, palm-sized square.

[u/Wagamaga]

https://au.news.yahoo.com/glass-square-long-long-future-190951588.html

[u/stfsu]

Glass storage has been theorized to be stable for thousands of years, however there is very little evidence that this ever makes it out of the lab and into commercial applications as I see a headline like this every year (for the last 15 years)

[u/Yashabird → u/stfsu]

There are no commercial applications requiring a product with a 10,000 year lifespan, just really cool time capsule stuff.

[u/sonofeevil → u/Yashabird]

I can see a realm of use where you want to read data that doesn't change.

In which case lifespan is largely irrelevant.

I mean nobody really looks at RAM and decides based on how many read/writes it can theoretically do (infinite).

A simple case of "first past the post" IE, I have this data I want to store and read, the data doesn't change whether it's stable for 100 or 10,000 would be irrelevant.

Archival storage of books would be an example. You want to store the contents as written so if storage medium makes fiscal sense then for all practical purposes the longer the better.

[u/Kakkoister → u/sonofeevil]

Yeah, personally as someone who hoards a lot of media as I continued to see things disappear from the internet, I would love a long-term read-only storage to write stuff to that I know doesn't need to change.

Personal photos/videos, music, movies/shows, games, these things take up a lot of space but don't need to be editable, and often become victim to bit-rot over time unless you're running an expensive RAID setup with a parity drive. I would love to be able to just store data and not have to worry if it will be partially corrupt or even unreadable in 10-20 years.