215 petabytes of data in a single gram of DNA

Now thats some serious storage density.

http://hexus.net/tech/news/storage/103126-researchers-can-now-encode-215-petabytes-single-gram-dna/

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What are you doing?

Growing a new hard drive... what do you think?

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Quick, how much dna is in the body.

Cause I got a lot of de fragmenting todo.

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Glances over at goldfish. Hmmm

who says goldfish have no memory? that's googles archive swimming around in there

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What kind of IO performance can we see?

Storing petabytes upon petabytes of data is neat, but if it takes years to read or write anything its kinda useless

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About 8oz worth I reckon.

I know I put my vacation photos in the dorsal fin somewhere

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What file system in your DNA set up to use?

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FAT 32 nice and organic to work with.

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(The internet) 1.5 million exabytes weighin' 20 grams beats mother nature, so is it safe to say the internet broke the dna?

Now, where's doris?!

However its all sequential storage. Like a molecular Tape drive. I'd hate to see the seek times on that XD