News Harvard’s New Dye-Based Storage Could Preserve Data for Thousands of Years

[Admin]

Similar to the caveman paintings of olde, liquid-based data storage has surfaced yet again, taking the method to the technological next level.

Harvard’s New Dye-Based Storage Could Preserve Data for Thousands of Years : Read more

 

[Endymio]

Once data is recorded, the dye method uses no energy in order to maintain itself, unlike most forms of bulk data storage that use costly physical servers to keep data available....

Err, what? Magnetic tapes and hard drives only require "costly physical servers" to retrieve the data, not to maintain the storage ... exactly the same as this dye storage method.

 

[Raul_McCai]

Err, what? Magnetic tapes and hard drives only require "costly physical servers" to retrieve the data, not to maintain the storage ... exactly the same as this dye storage method.

Journalists in all areas are increasingly prone to flights of fancy.