[SEMI-NEWS] - Proteins Produce Nano-Magnetic Storage

[Buck]

Computer hard drive capacity could be increased a hundredfold by using a common protein to fabricate nano-scale magnetic particles, claims UK company Nanomagnetics

The article is from NewScientist.com.

 

[Mercutio]

[Mercutio is suddenly shifted to SLASHDOT MODE]

MMmmmm... 100 times more pr0n.

[Amazingly, Mercutio has "Excellent" karma on slashdot. Kind of scary, isn't it?]

Gazing into my crystal ball I see 25TB hard drives for $300. Meanwhile, 4GB models continue to sell for $40 on ebay.

 

[Dïscfärm]

They've been messing (maybe literally) around with "biological" storage in academic research departments for more years than I care to count. Protein this-and-that have continued to be most of the focus in bio-storage since at least 1994 or '95.

 

[blakerwry]

if you used bios storage... would it be vulnerable to viruses... or bacteria...

um... don't most protiens start to denature above about 100F.. would that be a problem for protein based storage seeing as how PCs are expected to run in that range...

 

[Jan Kivar]

This is starting to sound like eXistenZ...

Jan

 

[CityK]

if you used bios storage... would it be vulnerable to viruses... or bacteria...

um... don't most protiens start to denature above about 100F.. would that be a problem for protein based storage

Yes I can see the future of SR's computers forum now:

Can somebody helped me, a virus ruptured my phospholipid bilayer and one of my partitions leaked out into the interstitial fluid.

 

[Mercutio]

That can't be SR. There was no mention of RAID0.

 

[mubs]

That can't be SR. There was no mention of RAID0.

:mrgrn:

Guys, guys, the storage will be in our bodies. We'll all be part of the collective. For data transfer, you'll have to, um, exchange body fluids.

 

[Jan Kivar]

That can't be SR. There was no mention of RAID0.

:mrgrn:

Guys, guys, the storage will be in our bodies. We'll all be part of the collective. For data transfer, you'll have to, um, exchange body fluids.

LOL

Less talking, more... :wink:

Jan

 

[.Nut]

Hmmmm..... I wonder if Protein Storage works good when RAID'ed??? :erm:

:errr:

:errr: