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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."
And you thought DVD rot was bad!
If it's anything like the data in my secret directory, I forsee an irony overload of epic proportions.
Makes the whole concept of a "data dump" a lot less appealing.
Similarly, would these offend the Hindu belief that cows are sacred, thus ending Indian outsourcing?
Feh! The Sumerians were reading goat entrails for information ages before this came along.
Vegans are gonna be forced to use slower, less compatible soy-protein alternatives.
It's still 128 gigs... Thats a good deal in my book.
1099511627776 bits = 137438953472 bytes = 134217728 kilobytes = 131072 megabytes = 128 gigabytes.
If only they can somehow expand this technology to work with proteins from animals from the ursus or lupine families, then imagine the RAIDs you could create.
A bear-wolf cluster, if you will...