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Error correction redundancy to any level of reliability you want takes log(N) extra storage. My question would be what the access speeds are. If you have to read it by running it through a trillion PCR test tubes, this isn't exactly practical.


Microfluidics or lab-on-a-chip are the latest advances: http://www.extremetech.com/computing/84340-new-silicon-chip-...

The progress in this field has been far better than Moore's Law [1] so it could be very practical.

[1] Excellent TED talk on it too by Richard Resnick: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8bsCiq6hvM


Long term, rarely accessed backup?




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