This will bring DNA data storage performance and cost significantly closer to tape,” Microsoft told TechRadar. As promising as this all sounds, we are many years away from storing data on DNA.

The pink smear in this test tube is DNA that has been synthesized to store digital data for long-term storage. Microsoft used the same technique to store roughly 200 megabytes of data.

Microsoft has purchased 10,000,000 strands of DNA from biology startup Twist Bioscience towards researching digital data storage solutions.

Most current data storage systems eventually stop working. Could storing digital information in DNA be the answer?

It won't be long before you can write megabytes of data per second on synthetic DNA that will be readable for thousands of years.

The rise of DNA data storage, previously the stuff of science fiction, is being made possible by advances in biotechnology, particularly improvements in high-throughput DNA sequencing and synthesis.

Illumina, Microsoft, Twist Bioscience, and data storage giant Western Digital are leading the effort as founding members of the DNA Data Storage Alliance.

Microsoft has concluded a years-long experiment involving use of a shipping container-sized underwater data center, placed on the sea floor off the cost of Scotland’s Orkney Islands.

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