Microsoft Testing DNA Storage

[foofighterjim]

Quite an interesting project from Microsoft:

 

Microsoft experiments with DNA storage: 1,000,000,000 terabytes in a gram | Ars Technica UK

 

DNA Storage - Microsoft Research

[denzal2k4]

Why? will we soon have human server farms? a bloke with a cable plugged into the mains via his bumhole?

[Poults]

Why? will we soon have human server farms? a bloke with a cable plugged into the mains via his bumhole?

 

Best hope there arent any brown outs.

[3s-gtech]

^^Depends, storage is heavily I/O dependant and that particular port is much more efficient one way than the other

 

DNA is just a chemical sequence, so it sounds promising - actually reading and writing the data is an interesting prospect.