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Revolutionary storage technology could make hard drives and tape obsolete
- gus_massa 6y agoIt's a device to save data in DNA. > Right now though the biggest barriers to mass adoption are size (Shannon is the size of a family kitchen), price (unknown at the time of writing but likely to be in the hundreds of thousands of dollars) and writing speed (a pedestrian 10Mbps). Size may be reduced, prize may be reduced, but how are they planing to increase the writing and reading speed?
- jqpabc123 6y agoHighly dense storage is a nice goal but ultimately not very practical if the data can't be retrieved easily and quickly. The goods news, we have your data safely stored in a sugar cube. The bad news, it may take months to retrieve it.