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Scientists Unveil Most Dense Memory Circuit Ever Made
adamlazz writes "The most dense computer memory circuit ever fabricated, capable of storing around 2,000 words in a unit the size of a white blood cell, was unveiled by scientists in California. The team of experts at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) who developed the 160-kilobit memory cell say it has a bit density of 100 gigabits per square centimeter, a new record. The cell is capable of storing a file the size of the United States' Declaration of Independence with room left over."
I know DNA has been proposed as a storage mechanism before. Since the immense human genome fits inside a cell, wouldn't DNA offer much denser storage?
3.1TB per platter, times probably four or five platters. You're looking at 12.4TB - most impressively, you "lose" more than a full terabyte due to the stupid *B/*iB capacity notation (down to 11.2TiB).
Still fairly impressive if you ask me. But, more importantly, memory circuit says "flash" to me (I can't be bothered to read TFA). That'll make for a very large stick, or a massive internal flash drive - the latter really appeals to me, as seek time can be a real killer and flash effectively doesn't have one.
How are sites slashdotted when nobody reads TFAs?
I have three sets of Encyclopedia Britannica, so know well how much space it takes up. One is the last set where the volumes are a single series from A-Z, the second is the following year when they split it to several series (Macropedia, Micropedia, I think are two of the designators) and the third is an early 20'th century set in leather bound octavio size volumes.
It's more fun to browse through a volume of it on a rainy day than it is to hyperlink all over wikipedia.