A trio of researchers has encoded a draft of a book into DNA. The 5.27-megabit tome contains 53,246 words, 11 JPG image files and a JavaScript program, making it the largest piece of non ...

Scaling Down Dense Data Of the DNA-in-liquid method, Church states that, “you can drop it wherever you want, in the desert or your backyard, and it will be there 400,000 years later.” ...

Punched cards and paper tape are probably about as robust as books. Like a stone tablet, too, it should be pretty obvious that they hold data and they are easy to decode, even by hand.

Harvard University geneticist George Church jump-started the field in 2012 by encoding 70 billion copies of a book— one million gigabits —in a cubic millimeter of DNA. A year later researchers ...

Storage experts speak of a data-temperature scale. On one end, there is “hot” data—Wikipedia or your bank balance—which needs to appear on your screen almost instantly.

Joseph F. Kovar is a senior editor and reporter for the storage and the non-tech-focused channel beats for CRN. He keeps readers abreast of the latest issues related to such areas as data life ...

That's more storage than the world's biggest hard drives, capable of holding about 330 million books. The tape drive's cartridge could fit into the palm of a person's hand.

In fact, an article in the journal Nature predicts that by 2040, data storage would consume 10-100 times the expected supply of microchip-grade silicon, using current technology.