Magnetic disks keep getting denser and denser, but one thing they can’t seem to shake is the propensity to crash. SolidState helps a lot, but these drives remain expensive and can’t seem to match the capacity of their magnetic brethren.
Researchers at the Universityof Japan may have an answer – high-capacity devices that use proteins derived from bacteria to store data. One interesting twist – the storage devices have to be chilled to preserve the protein.
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