D4rk0n3 used our news submit to tell us about a breakthrough that could leave HD and blu-ray in the dust as storage media. A scientist claims the possibility of being able to write terabytes of data to a single disc.
 Sydney, Jul 8 (ANI): An Indian born scientist in the US is working on developing DVDs which can be coated with a light-sensitive protein and can store up to 50 terabytes (about 50,000 gigabytes) of data. Professor V Renugopalakrishnan of the Harvard Medical School in Boston has claimed to have developed a layer of protein made from tiny genetically altered microbe proteins which could store enough data to make computer hard disks almost obsolete. "What this will do eventually is eliminate the need for hard drive memory completely," ABC quoted Prof. Renugopalakrishnan, a BSc in Chemistry from Madras University and PhD in biophysics from Columbia/State University of New York, Buffalo, New York as saying. |
The article mentions claims of rendering hard drives obsolete if this development is successful, but do people have that much confidence in the reliability of optical media? Will we load our OS from our 50TB DVD and not have to worry about what is or isn't installed on the host computer? To read more about just how this is expected to work and possible concerns and drawbacks see the full article here. Thanks D4rk0n3!
Source: Yahoo!
