I stumbled across this interesting abstract today, and though I'd rekindle the perennial data storage debate on ccp4bb.
Apparently these researchers have figured out a way to store 360TB of data on a "disc" (not sure of the actual dimensions). The memory crystal should have a thermal stability of 1000ºC and the data should remain readable "forever". Here is the news release: http://www.southampton.ac.uk/mediacentre/news/2013/jul/13_131.shtml and a PDF abstract from the recent Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO’13) in San Jose: http://www.orc.soton.ac.uk/fileadmin/downloads/5D_Data_Storage_by_Ultrafast_Laser_Nanostructuring_in_Glass.pdf
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