HD made with viruses

Mr.Suave · 01-04-2007, 06:15 AM

I was watching Wired Science on PBS and one thing interested me.
Scientist have found these viruses in Yellowstone National Park and use the containers (protein shell) to create a new way to produce hydrogen and are researching if they can use the containers with magnetic something or another to store data and create an HD out of them. They said it would have a greater density storage or something like that. Has anyone else heard of this and has more info?

lhstud10 · 01-04-2007, 06:16 AM

sounds interesting...

PC eye · 01-04-2007, 07:08 AM

Just imagine suddenly going from the latest 750gb SATA drives to 750TB! Hold some phenomenal 750 terrabytes of data on only one drive. You certainly wouldn't need multiple drives to run multiple OSs. It may take you forever to defragment it however.

Then try zero filling it?

!!!

lovely? · 01-04-2007, 07:22 AM

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Originally Posted by PC eye

Just imagine suddenly going from the latest 750gb SATA drives to 750TB! Hold some phenomenal 750 terrabytes of data on only one drive. You certainly wouldn't need multiple drives to run multiple OSs. It may take you forever to defragment it however.

Then try zero filling it?

!!!

hmm. its a new techknowalgy, so it'll be really expensive.

mrgeorgedude · 01-04-2007, 07:25 AM

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Originally Posted by lovely?

hmm. its a new techknowalgy, so it'll be really expensive.

and hopefully the 750gb hard drive will be like $10.

PC eye · 01-04-2007, 07:51 AM

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Originally Posted by mrgeorgedude

and hopefully the 750gb hard drive will be like $10.

The $10 would be S&H when they have to "give them away" due to people buying a new type of drive technology!

At first a "virus ladden" hard drive wouldn't seem to be a good seller? (

viruses already "in" a drive?

oh crap!)

lovely? · 01-04-2007, 09:08 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by PC eye

The $10 would be S&H when they have to "give them away" due to people buying a new type of drive technology!

At first a "virus ladden" hard drive wouldn't seem to be a good seller? (

viruses already "in" a drive?

oh crap!)

lol thats what i though this thread was about when i first read the name i lmao

hpi · 01-04-2007, 10:26 AM

Sounds pretty kewl.

Where can you buy 1 tb hd anyways? I wonder if id be able to hook it up to my pc.

mrgeorgedude · 01-04-2007, 10:48 AM

But then again this really SHOULDN'T be all that big news. I mean i used to have a 60mb hard drive, which was considered alot, and now i have about 160gbs. Thats already like more than 10 times what i used to have. So really "science" has always been uprading HDD's at light speed and this really isn't anything new.

PC eye · 01-04-2007, 08:17 PM

Surprisingly the option to go from a 1.4gb drive on an old system to a 13gb model was a big step at one time. Now I find two 250gb drives with both versions of XP running rather "cramped"! I've had to consider adding a sata array of two 500-750gb drives for storage when comtemplating the next build if I don't add them in on this one.

When 95 and NT were the two primary versions of Windows used the apps and games run then were far smaller in size at that time. Take a look at some of the latest games and much larger software now to see where the drive ratio has actually shrunk at times. A new leap in drive capacity is something that does have a need,

Gee? Just think, we spend all this time fighting to remove and keep viruses off of our systems

! only to find that a virus will be the thing to bail us out! as far as drive space is concerned.

01-04-2007, 06:15 AM	#1 (permalink)
Mr.Suave Diamond Member Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: SoCal Posts: 1,374	HD made with viruses I was watching Wired Science on PBS and one thing interested me. Scientist have found these viruses in Yellowstone National Park and use the containers (protein shell) to create a new way to produce hydrogen and are researching if they can use the containers with magnetic something or another to store data and create an HD out of them. They said it would have a greater density storage or something like that. Has anyone else heard of this and has more info? __________________ The Comp: CPU--Athlon64 X2 4200+ Manchester @ 2.5!!!:D HDD--WD Caviar 250GB 7200 RPM SATA MB---DFI LANPARTY UT nF4 SLI-DR RAM--OCZ Titanium 2GB (2 x 1GB) GPU--Sapphire ATI Radeon X1900XTX 512mb SPU--Creative Sound Blaster Audigy2 ZS PSU--ENERMAX Whisper II 535W all inside a Thermaltake Matrix VX

01-04-2007, 10:48 AM	#9 (permalink)
mrgeorgedude Platinum Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: California Age: 18 Posts: 711	But then again this really SHOULDN'T be all that big news. I mean i used to have a 60mb hard drive, which was considered alot, and now i have about 160gbs. Thats already like more than 10 times what i used to have. So really "science" has always been uprading HDD's at light speed and this really isn't anything new. __________________ MOBO : Biostar Tforce4 6100-939 CPU : AMD athlon 3500+ @ 2.5ghz RAM : 1gb Mem (512 by 512mb Corsair) CASE : Xion II (with cool blue cathode lights inside) HDD : 120gb and 80gb...both at 7200rpm GPU : eVGA geforce 7600GT

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lhstud10 Platinum Member Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Austin, TX Age: 18 Posts: 593	sounds interesting...

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PC eye banned Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 21,091	Just imagine suddenly going from the latest 750gb SATA drives to 750TB! Hold some phenomenal 750 terrabytes of data on only one drive. You certainly wouldn't need multiple drives to run multiple OSs. It may take you forever to defragment it however. Then try zero filling it? !!!

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hpi banned Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Montreal, Quebec Posts: 1,515	Sounds pretty kewl. Where can you buy 1 tb hd anyways? I wonder if id be able to hook it up to my pc.

01-04-2007, 08:17 PM	#10 (permalink)
PC eye banned Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 21,091	Surprisingly the option to go from a 1.4gb drive on an old system to a 13gb model was a big step at one time. Now I find two 250gb drives with both versions of XP running rather "cramped"! I've had to consider adding a sata array of two 500-750gb drives for storage when comtemplating the next build if I don't add them in on this one. When 95 and NT were the two primary versions of Windows used the apps and games run then were far smaller in size at that time. Take a look at some of the latest games and much larger software now to see where the drive ratio has actually shrunk at times. A new leap in drive capacity is something that does have a need, Gee? Just think, we spend all this time fighting to remove and keep viruses off of our systems ! only to find that a virus will be the thing to bail us out! as far as drive space is concerned.