Collaborate Disseminate
You see it all the time in science fiction: the heroes find old data, read it, and learn how to save the day. But how realistic is that? Forget aliens. …read more Continue reading Inside Project Silica, Now on Bakeware
Save a bunch of files on a good ol’ magnetic hard drive, leave it in a box, and they’ll probably still be there a couple of decades later. The lubricants …read more Continue reading A Friendly Reminder That Your Unpowered SSDs Are Probably Losing Data
Unless you handle the backups for a large corporation, bank, or government entity, you likely haven’t stored much data to tape recently. But magnetic storage used to be fairly mainstream …read more Continue reading Copying Commodore Data Tapes, 40 Years Late
At least some in the audience will at some time in the distant past have loaded or saved a program on cassette, with an 8-bit home computer. The machine would …read more Continue reading A Modem as a Cassette Interface
Scientists have stored the entire human genome on a five-dimensional crystal that’s capable of digitally storing up to 360 terabytes of information and is built to survive for billions of years. The tech could be used to create an enduring record of hu… Continue reading 5D ‘eternity crystal’ stores 360 TB of data for billions of years
A full DNA computer is a step closer, thanks to a new technology that could store petabytes of data in DNA for thousands or even millions of years. The system can also process data, as demonstrated by solving sudoku puzzles.Continue ReadingCategory: Te… Continue reading DNA “computer” solves sudoku and stores millions of GB for millennia
DNA is a much denser data storage medium than anything humans can design, but the problem is that it’s fragile. So now scientists have taken another page out of nature’s book and created artificial amber to protect data stored in DNA longer term.Contin… Continue reading Artificial amber stores data in DNA long-term
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[Adam Conway] wanted to store files in the cloud. However, if you haven’t noticed, unlimited free storage is hard to find. We aren’t sure if he wants to use the …read more Continue reading Unlimited Cloud Storage YouTube Style
These days, cheap removable storage is no problem. USB sticks are virtually free at moderate capacity and not unreasonable, even at relatively large sizes. They are rugged, work across platforms, …read more Continue reading Storage Media Forgotten