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Engineered proteins store digital files with 30 times density at one-tenth cost (phys.org)
submitted 13 hours ago by snoons@lemmy.ca to c/technology@lemmy.world
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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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[–] Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org 22 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

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.ca 10 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

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.

[–] fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 hour ago

All I want is to have a future advanced archeology mission discovery my MLP fanfics

[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 1 points 2 hours ago

Me too!

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 4 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours 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)