Items tagged with petabyte
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 onto a single gram of DNA. If you recall, we brought you news last July that Microsoft had managed to store 200MB on a single strand of DNA. This latest advance, however, takes those efforts to the extreme. According to Columbia University computer scientist Yaniv Erlich, they were able to encode at 1.6 bits per nucleotide, which works out to 85 percent of the theoretical...
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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 group of researchers at Swinburne University say they can pack in 1,000TB (or one petabyte) on a single disc. In an article explaining the technology, the team explained that burners store data on optical discs by “burning” a string of 1s and 0s--represented by dots and performed by a single beam of light. To date, the limitation has had to do with the size of that light...
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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 abundance of information that's not stored there, such as audio, video, and even entire websites? For that, there's Internet Archive. Internet Archive is about as old as the Internet itself, having launched in 1996. Its goal is to archive as much of the Web as possible, including websites you visit every single day, such as HotHardware. If websites were all the Internet Archive sought...
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