Items tagged with petabyte

by Brandon Hill - Fri, Mar 03, 2017

Researchers Develop Storage Tech Capable Of Holding 215 Petabytes Of Data On A Single Gram Of DNA

If you think that 60TB SSDs are impressive, you might want to sit down for what researchers at Columbia University and the New York Genome Centre have managed to pull off using DNA storage. Using new encoding technology, the researchers have the ability to store an amazing 215 petabytes (215 million gigabytes) of data... Read more...

by Seth Colaner - Fri, Jun 21, 2013

Researchers Develop Optical Technology Increasing Data Storage To 1,000 Terabytes On a Single DVD

The race to figure out more efficient ways of storing the ever-increasing amount of data we generate every day is on, and researchers have developed a simple yet powerful way to dramatically increase the storage density of a DVD. How dramatic? DVDs can handle 4.7GB of storage using conventional means of burning; a... Read more...

by Rob Williams - Mon, Oct 29, 2012

Internet Archive Now Stores Over 10,000,000,000,000,000 Bytes of the Web

For both simple and in-depth information, Wikipedia has become a go-to spot for many. While fact-checking is recommended for important information you may come across, the fact that the online service stores millions of articles tackling almost every possible subject makes it an amazing resource. But what about the... Read more...