介绍： A hard drive is a miracle of modern technology.

硬盘驱动器是现代技术的一个奇迹。
For $50 anyone can buy a machine that can comfortably store the contents of,
只要花上50美元，每个人都能买上一台机器，轻松地将牛津大学
say, the Bodleian Library in Oxford as a series of tiny magnetic ripples on a spinning disk of...

介绍： A hard drive is a miracle of modern technology.

硬盘驱动器是现代技术的一个奇迹。
For $50 anyone can buy a machine that can comfortably store the contents of,
只要花上50美元，每个人都能买上一台机器，轻松地将牛津大学
say, the Bodleian Library in Oxford as a series of tiny magnetic ripples on a spinning disk of cobalt alloy.
博德利图书馆中的书籍内容储存为钴合金旋转圆盘上的一系列微小磁波纹。
But, as is often the case, natural selection knocks humanity's best efforts into a cocked hat.
但通常自然选择把人类最大的努力打得一败涂地。
DNA, the information-storage technology preferred by biology, can cram up to 215 petabytes of data into a single gram.
DNA是生物学偏爱的一种信息存储技术，它可以将215拍字节的数据塞进一克的物质中。
That is 10m times what the best modern hard drives can manage.
这一储存量是现代最好硬盘驱动器可存储量的一千万倍。
And DNA storage is robust. While hard-drive warranties rarely exceed five years,
而且DNA存储也很稳定。虽然硬盘的保修期一般不会超过五年，
DNA is routinely recovered from bones that are thousands of years old
DNA通常是从数千年前的骨头中提取出来的
(the record stands at 700,000 years, for a genome belonging to an ancestor of the modern horse).
（最久远的记录来自于70万年前，基因组属于现代马的祖先）。