2012-09-25, 09:48 AM
Flonne Wrote:huh, I really thought the next big thing would be the bug protein coated disc storage, or greatly enhanced tape drives (though I heard some experimental tape drives can already hold up to 50TB).
This is pretty awesome, though, holy crap.
The problem with biological technology is that those systems are inherently non-durable and only work because they are constantly rebuilt by the cells. Even if those tapes contained the cells/bugs themselves that produce those proteins there's always the issue of resistance to temperature and shortage of substract.