Prof. Renugopalakrishnan and his team at Harvard Medical School in Boston have discovered a unique protein that could possibly be used to store up to 50,000-gigabytes (50-terabytes) of data onto medium the size of our DVDs. renugopalakrishnan教授和他的团队在哈佛大学医学院在波士顿已经发现了一种独特的蛋白质可能被用来存储多达50000 -千兆字节（ 50千兆字节）的数据上中等大小，我们的DVD光盘。

Well, I’ve covered ferroelectricity technology that promises more than a那么，我已经涵盖的铁电技术的承诺，一个多 thousand times greater storage space一千遍更大的存储空间 than this.超过这一点。 But both technologies are just as out-of-reach right now.但是，这两种技术是一样失控的接触的权利。

The light-activated protein is found in the membrane of a salt marsh microbe Halobacterium salinarum and is also known as bacteriorhodopsin (bR).光活化的蛋白被发现在该膜的盐沼微生物盐salinarum和也称为细菌视紫红质（ BR ）的。 It captures and stores sunlight to convert it to chemical energy.它捕获和商店的阳光将它转化成化学能。 When light shines on bR, it is converted to a series of intermediate molecules each with a unique shape and colour before returning to its ‘ground state’.当光线照射对溴，它会转换为一系列的中间分子的每一个独特的形状和颜色，然后返回其地面国' 。

As the intermediates only lasts for hours or days, the professor had to modify the DNA that produces this protein to extend it up to several years.作为中间体只持续几小时或几天内，这位教授不得不修改的DNA产生这种蛋白质把它扩大到数年。 Not quite enough I would say.不太足够，我会说。 After all, do you really want to re-backup that 50-terabytes every couple of years?毕竟，你真的要重新备份， 50 TB的每两，三年？

But但是 ferroelectricity铁电 or proteins, we don’t really care.或蛋白质，我们并不真正关心。 Just give us our next-gen uber-large storage technology before our storerooms are decked full of DVD/Blu-ray/HD-DVD backups.只要给我们我们的下一代产品-大存储技术之前，我们的储物室是加盖，充分的DVD /蓝光DVD / HD - DVD的备份。 Blame it on BitTorrent.归咎于这对BT的。