Massive volumes of digital data are generated every day from AI training, big data analytics and smart devices. As conventional hard drives and cloud storage are increasingly constrained by high costs, limited capacity, high power consumption and short lifespans, molecular data storage has emerged as a breakthrough storage alternative.

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Massive volumes of digital data are generated every day from AI training, big data analytics and smart devices. As conventional hard drives and cloud storage are increasingly constrained by high costs, limited capacity, high power consumption and short lifespans, molecular data storage has emerged as a breakthrough storage alternative.

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  • Zwuzelmaus@feddit.orgEnglish
    31·
    2 days ago

    emerged as a breakthrough storage alternative.

    Breakthrough alternative my ass. This is basic research.

    For example the writing speed into this “storage”, it is still as slow as a little child’s handwriting.

    • snoons@lemmy.caOPEnglish
      17·
      2 days ago

      I’m just imagining someone waiting ~36 hours for their e.coli culture to grow enough to produce a signal… and finally download their MLP fanfic.

    • fullsquare@awful.systemsEnglish
      7·
      2 days ago

      thunderous speed in the range of minutes per residue (not every aminoacid can be used and what they’re printing is dna, not proteins so multiply it 3x. they’re encoding 3 bits per aminoacid, but there’s overhead, error correction and structural requirements that make data density lower than 1 bit per nucleobase)