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Isn't DNA orders of magnitude slower than current storage media?
by presscast 8y ago
Isn't DNA orders of magnitude slower than current storage media?
- jfarlow 8y agoYes. Many orders of magnitude. However, if you're just doing cold storage, the data-density of DNA is many orders of magnitude greater. With essentially sub-nanometer 3D atomic data-density you can pack a staggering amount of data in a very very small package. And though we're not quite there yet in read/write speeds at the ends of the route, the old saying rings true about the fastest way to transfer large amounts of data between the coasts - in a station-wagon full of hard drives.
- Real_S 8y agoAlso, consider that read-speed is rapidly improving. So for long-term storage, reading the data at a reasonable rate in the future is almost guaranteed. Hopefully write-speed will reach a similar rate of improvement. Importantly, expected corruption of the data stored in DNA is less than what one expects using other forms of data storage. So if stability of the data is a concern, DNA has unique advantages.
- drvdevd 8y agoI wonder what effect the introduction of artificial nucleotides and engineered proteins will have on “DNA” storage speeds as well...