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I found the DNA article a day or two ago on my phones news feed. i know im just now posting it the second one i did a search for because i remembered a show called "beyond 2000". in the show they showed off a prototype that took up about the entire room they were in. it was a laser setup used to write data to a man made quartz crystal.
To start off the links is from a few days ago, MS DNA STORAGE EXPERIMENT
http://www.engadget.com/2016/04/29/microsoft-dna-storage/
http://arstechnica.com/information-...nts-with-dna-storage-1000000000-tb-in-a-gram/
Next is what i found through google, looks like updated projects of using quartz crystals for data storage.
http://gizmodo.com/optical-data-storage-squeezes-360tb-on-to-a-quartz-disc-1759359652
http://money.cnn.com/2016/02/17/technology/5d-data-storage-memory-crystals/
what i found interesting about the crystal links for the latest projects is how much smaller they have gotten. as in the show they were showing a cube crystal i think it was something like 4inx4in. I dont think that earlier prototype held nearly as much data in the testing.
Both promising techs for data storage, its kind of hard to say which will last longer. as scientist say DNA can repair it self, im not sure exactly how this happens or works. with so many variables could DNA withstand sub zero temps, what about the crystal. with so many questions about environment conditions i think its hard to say which exactly will last longer. i think it would be safe to say that if both were dropped into molten lava both would melt and neither would be viable then. sub zero temps might be a different story but i would think DNA has a better chance at withstanding that vs crystal's.
To start off the links is from a few days ago, MS DNA STORAGE EXPERIMENT
http://www.engadget.com/2016/04/29/microsoft-dna-storage/
http://arstechnica.com/information-...nts-with-dna-storage-1000000000-tb-in-a-gram/
Next is what i found through google, looks like updated projects of using quartz crystals for data storage.
http://gizmodo.com/optical-data-storage-squeezes-360tb-on-to-a-quartz-disc-1759359652
http://money.cnn.com/2016/02/17/technology/5d-data-storage-memory-crystals/
what i found interesting about the crystal links for the latest projects is how much smaller they have gotten. as in the show they were showing a cube crystal i think it was something like 4inx4in. I dont think that earlier prototype held nearly as much data in the testing.
Both promising techs for data storage, its kind of hard to say which will last longer. as scientist say DNA can repair it self, im not sure exactly how this happens or works. with so many variables could DNA withstand sub zero temps, what about the crystal. with so many questions about environment conditions i think its hard to say which exactly will last longer. i think it would be safe to say that if both were dropped into molten lava both would melt and neither would be viable then. sub zero temps might be a different story but i would think DNA has a better chance at withstanding that vs crystal's.