Indian-born scientist developing coated DVD's that can make hard disks obsolete

50TB of data? Woohoo! But it wont replace hd anytime soon.

..."The protein-based DVDs will be able to store at least 20 times more than the Blue-ray and eventually even up to 50,000 gigabytes (about 50 terabytes) of information. You can pack literally thousands and thousands of those proteins on a media like a DVD, a CD or a film or whatever," he said...

Read more at in.tech.yahoo.com/06070...