[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Rather far out....

[JennysCool]

Professor V Renugopalakrishnan

New media had to be developed to store his name.

[KellyAdmirer]

Just don't let your dog near your computer, he might lick off all your files.

[neverdem]

bfl

[SunkenCiv]

That'll be cool... just one disk in the sale racks at Christmas, and it contains 10,000 movies (or more). Of course, you'll never get to see them all because the protein decays...

[djf]

So, if your computer gets a virus, does that mean it REALLY gets a virus?

[Dallas59]

Sure....Then I wait 50 years for a file to open up....

[Echo Talon]

which can be coated with a light -sensitive protein and can store up to 50 terabytes (about 50,000 gigabytes) of data.

 OMG
 

[ShadowAce]

[Egon]

"Science can be used and abused. Making large amounts of information so portable on high-capacity removable storage devices will make it easier for information to fall into the wrong hands. Information can be stolen very quickly. One has to have some safeguards there," he added.

Oh, for crying out loud! What the heck does this have anything to do with it??

People could've made the same statement about the 5.25" floppy disk, back in "the day"...and probably did.

This is intriguing technology. I'd be interested in what kind of access speed and transfer rates they're looking at.

[avg_freeper]

"The new protein-based DVD will have advantages over current optical storage devices such as the Blue-ray as well, because the information is stored in proteins that are only a few nanometres across."

And because the disks would only last a few years you would have to keep on repurchasing your movies, music, etc. making the only people that matter, the entertainment industry, even richer.

[Still Thinking]

"The protein-based DVDs will be able to store at least 20 times more than the Blue-ray and eventually even up to 50,000 gigabytes (about 50 terabytes) of information. You can pack literally thousands and thousands of those proteins on a media like a DVD, a CD or a film or whatever," he said.

I like how the key to the incredible density is that you can pack "literally thousands and thousands" of the proteins on there.

[cdnerds]

Great for storage but the speed of DVD's even when just reading are no match for the speed of a hard drive. Also, the cacheing issues with operating systems. You would need a Rewriteable version, and it be so slow your system would crawl. They would have to make a faster way to put information on the 50 TB disk and take it off for it be used as the main drive for the computer. Also, would you trust a 50 TB disk the size of DVD to be your main computers version of HD? I sure wouldnt lol. I say this would be great for backup jobs and just archiving software, music, movies, etc.