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700 Terabytes in a single gram of DNA
A bioengineer and geneticist at
Harvard’s Wyss Institute have successfully stored 5.5 petabits of data —
around 700 terabytes — in a single gram of DNA, smashing the previous
DNA data density record by a thousand times.
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Permalink Reply by Loren Miller on -
Sure, data density is great ... but what's the read / write latency time?
I think I'm going to stick with hard drives and flash memory for now!
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Permalink Reply by Tammy S on -
Yeah I've seen other people asking that same thing over and over, I'd be interested to know that myself.
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Permalink Reply by George on -
The article says it could be useful for archival purposes, because dna is very stable. So you're trading off long-term stability for speed.
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Permalink Reply by Madhukar Kulkarni on -
It would displease the ID proponents immensely if the two scientists have done better than god himself!
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