With over three zettabytes (3,000 billion billion bytes) of digital information floating around the world, it is challenging to store the constant flow. Up until now, we’ve used a hard drive, or a ...
Like DNA hard drives, the approach could lock the world's data down for the long haul—if researchers can make it practical. We have a data storage problem. This year, the world’s storage needs will ...
Just a bit slow Software King of the World Microsoft just booted up the first “DNA drive” for storing data. The photocopier sized device converts digital information into DNA and… Software King of the ...
Every cell in your body contains a bundle of nucleic acid—deoxyribonucleic acid, to be specific. More commonly known as DNA, this molecule contains all the genetic information that makes you a ...
You probably keep a backup of important personal files, photos, and videos on a flash drive or external hard drive. In the not-too-distant future, you might store ...
The new storage system could hold family photos, cultural artifacts and the master versions of digital artworks, movies, manuscripts and music for thousands of years, scientists say.
From enterprise flash to experimental archival media, these are ten technologies looking to replace traditional hard drives... one day.