Special Proteins could allow for ~50TB disks - GoFuckYourself.com

The Duck · 07-14-2006, 04:39 AM

Scientists have apparently discovered that special proteins from a marsh reliant organism, once modified for longevity, could allow for Dvd sized disks to hold nearly 50TB of data.

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Unlike traditional optical or magnetic solutions, the disc developed by Professor V Renugopalakrishnan and his colleagues is coated with thousands of light-activated proteins called bacteriorhodopsin which are found in the membrane of a particular salt marsh microbe -- and which temporarily convert to a series of intermediate molecules when exposed to sunlight.

That property allows the proteins to act as individual bits in a binary system, but since they have a tendency to return to their grounded state after mere hours or days, Renugopalakrishnan and his team modified the requisite microbes' DNA to produce proteins capable of maintaining that intermediary state for several years. Unfortunately we won't see this technology come to market anytime soon, and even when it does, 50TB capacities will still be a ways off

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martinsc · 07-14-2006, 04:40 AM

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notabook · 07-14-2006, 05:55 AM

Wouldn?t the protein eventually break down w/o a resequencer mechanism? And you lose your 50TB of stored data? And then you kill yourself because it was your entire collection of scat porn?

Tdog · 07-14-2006, 06:23 AM

TB is this terabyte?? If so then that is some big ass space to hold data.

Matt_WildCash · 07-14-2006, 06:25 AM

Sounds good, but the dvd drives have to speed up if they want to read or write 50TB

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GatorB · 07-14-2006, 06:36 AM

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Originally Posted by Tdog

TB is this terabyte?? If so then that is some big ass space to hold data.

Yes that would be 1000 times more than a dual layer Blu_Ray DVD. So basically one could put 10,000 standard definition DVD movies on one disk. That's pretty much every theatrically released movie made over the last 40 years.

woj · 07-14-2006, 06:46 AM

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