Re:Scientists pave the way for large-scale storage at the at...
by abecedarius on Tuesday July 19, 2016 @01:05PM
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There was a paper in the last few years proposing to make DNA a practical mass-storage technology, as the last and slowest level of the hierarchy. It'd need lots of error correction, and to be chunked up into small-enough strings to synthesize, and each string would need to carry address bits to match on (unless you want a content-addressable store). But IIRC the storage density and the cost trends made it at least kind of plausible.
And of course there's http://e-drexler.com/d/06/00/Nanosystems/toc.html chapter 12.