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Engineered proteins store digital files with 30 times density at one-tenth cost

phys.org English

cross-posted from: https://news.abolish.capital/post/49670

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.
    • Zwuzelmaus@feddit.orgEnglish
      1 month

      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.caEnglish
        1 month

        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.

          • snoons@lemmy.caEnglish
            1 month

            I’m imagining a whole religion being created centred around my little pony because the fanfics that were dug up were completely misinterpreted.

      • fullsquare@awful.systemsEnglish
        1 month

        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)

    • ranzispa@mander.xyzEnglish
      1 month

      We had a 2 hours blackout and the -80 freezer got warm.

      I hope you got some backups of your backup.

    • db2@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1 month

      A wild particle appears! It’s super effective!

    • 𝕸𝖔𝖘𝖘@infosec.pubEnglish
      1 month

      As conventional hard drives and cloud storage are increasingly constrained by high costs

      Motherfucker, whose fault do you think this is??

      Edit. Autocorrect