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Storing Data In Cow Guts?
supersandra writes "News.com reports that companies are exploring how to use molten silicon, designer molecules, and even protein globules from cows as data storage media. The media made by Nanochip using molten silicon, called ovonic media, is similar to CDs or DVDs but can store much more data because the tools for reading and writing data could potentially be 25x smaller. Nanochip demonstrated a 1-inch square chip of material that could contain a terabit of data. ZettaCore has created a complex molecule that can retain or release up to eight electrons, exhibiting a voltage level that can be read as data, and thus each molecule can represent 4 bits of data. Another company, NanoMagnetics, uses a magnetic core surrounded by animal protein, and can also achieve a terabit of data per square inch."
Similarly, would these offend the Hindu belief that cows are sacred, thus ending Indian outsourcing?
achieve a terabit of data per square inch.
yeah. and transfer speeds approaching 1b/sec.
Any idea how slowly RNA encodes a datastream? It ain't quick.
kulakovich
It's still 128 gigs... Thats a good deal in my book.
1099511627776 bits = 137438953472 bytes = 134217728 kilobytes = 131072 megabytes = 128 gigabytes.
What the heck? Someone on slashdot is smokin some gooood crack, because this is the furthest thing from insightful I've ever seen.
It's still roughly 131 GB per square inch. Ask any photographer who uses digital cameras often wether 120 GB of of storage would be be considered insignificant.
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