DNA Data Storage Is The Next Big Thing
One gram of DNA can hold up to a billion terabytes.
The need to store data digitally is becoming more and more indispensable. We are not only becoming accustomed to digital media but also creating digital copies of previously handwritten documents.
The amount of data in the world was estimated to be 44 zettabytes (i.e 44 billion terabytes) at the start of this year.
The number of bytes in the digital universe is 40 times more than the stars in the observable universe.
No doubt we are creating data at an unprecedented rate. We created 16 billion terabytes (1 terabyte is 1000 Gigabytes) in 2018. As of May 2019, 500 hours of video were uploaded to YouTube every minute.
In today’s time using flash drives and hard disks has become the norm to store data. Even all the data you upload to the “cloud” ends up in a data warehouse somewhere in an isolated corner of the world and these data warehouses also use the traditional hard drives to store information. Facebook alone has about 15 million square feet of data center space.
Each warehouse is capable of storing about 1 billion gigabytes. To store all the data created in 2018 alone, we would roughly need…
