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At the moment the mass-storage medium of choice is magnetic tape, which has the advantage of being cheap.
So far, the cost of synthesizing and sequencing such very long strands of data-rich DNA as from the book remains too high to make the technique a practical commercial data-storage medium for the foreseeable future.
The only escape is to go deeper, using the full depth of a storage medium.
Team member Nick Goldman said the molecule was an incredibly dense storage medium.
Its virtualization storage products enable small and medium sized businesses to reduce the time and money spent managing their data storage.
"The small and medium business market for storage in Latin America is constantly growing, " said Fabio Gaia, General Manager of Officer Distibuidora, Iomega's largest reseller partner in Latin America.
Prof Lyman said he was surprised that paper was still proving popular as a storage medium but put its resilience down to the fact that a lot of the information generated on computer was printed out.
In the medium term, solar power combined with improved battery storage systems will make a difference, as will military vehicles with hybrid electric engines.
The grid needs short-, medium-, and longer-term storage to run smoothly, and car batteries could most easily meet the short-term need, a process called frequency regulation.
" Company representatives even remarked that "Blu-ray was only a storage medium, " and reiterated that BD "wasn't the only way to view high-def content.
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We've seen scientists experiment with DNA as a storage medium -- most recently with a Harvard team fitting 704TB of data onto a single gram of the genetic material -- and it looks like that research trend is only picking up.
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