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Flash drives also have all of the necessary equipment for it to be read. I wonder how much data per gram the actual storage part of the flash drive actually is.
by brodney 14y ago
Flash drives also have all of the necessary equipment for it to be read. I wonder how much data per gram the actual storage part of the flash drive actually is. I doubt it's better than DNA, but I think it might be disingenuous for the article to be offering the analogy to hard drives without taking into account the extra read/write hardware.
- skosuri 14y agoagreed, it should be comparied to other arhival media like tape drives; but it's still pretty similar; we compare in our paper a hard drive platter rather than a drive itself. even then we are approximately ~million fold more dense
- brodney 14y agoThanks for the response. That is a truly impressive figure. Great accomplishment!