Deoxy Ribose Nucleic Hard Drive --- Microsoft Cloud to use DNA for storage ?

[cbelt3]

I'm sorry, your data now has Pr0n cancer...

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/60788...its-cloud/

"Computer architects at Microsoft Research say the company has formalized a goal of having an operational storage system based on DNA working inside a data center toward the end of this decade. The aim is a “proto-commercial system in three years storing some amount of data on DNA in one of our data centers, for at least a boutique application,” says Doug Carmean, a partner architect at Microsoft Research. He describes the eventual device as the size of a large, 1970s-era Xerox copier."

[mrbigstuff]

Note when I tell people that I can't remember something because my hard drive is full, I'm being serious.

[ka jowct]

That's deoxyribonucleic acid...just sayin'. Memorized that in high school biology, and I want credit for that, dagnabbit.

[freeradical]

All of my external drives have DNA on them.

[OWC Jamie]

maybe when you're diabetic you see sugar in everything

[SteveG]

Developers! Developers! Developers!

[MrNoBody]

Microsoft and "storage system", what could possibly go wrong??

[Wags]

freeradical wrote:
All of my external drives have DNA on them.

Sometimes my screen gets DNA on it.

[ka jowct]

Wags wrote:
[quote=freeradical]
All of my external drives have DNA on them.

Sometimes my screen gets DNA on it.
TMI?

[S. Pupp]

Great. DNA is prone to spewing off new viruses, so in the future, we will be treating computer viruses with amantadine. There will be a transfer of viruses to humans, then what? Armageddon. That's what. DNA is not a toy.