DNA storage, crams 700 terabytes of data into a single gram

The Future is Coming and it Will be Amazing!!!

A bioengineer and geneticist at Harvard’s Wyss Institute have successfully stored 5.5 petabits of data — around 700 terabytes — in a single gram of DNA, smashing the previous DNA data density record by a thousand times.

via Harvard cracks DNA storage, crams 700 terabytes of data into a single gram | ExtremeTech.

by: Larry Emmott at August 20, 2012.