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

To store data in DNA, algorithms convert the 1s and 0s in digital data to ACTG sequences in DNA. Microsoft and University of Washington researchers stored and retrieved the word “hello” using the ...

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.

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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To ensure that our history lives on for longer, Microsoft has been experimenting with storing data on glass with what it calls Project Silica.

Microsoft has created a proof of concept that stores data on glass. Microsoft has teamed up with Warner Bros. to store the whole classic Superman movie on glass that’s the size of a coaster.

Microsoft believes synthetic DNA could be the next big leap in long-term data storage, with just one gram of DNA capable of storing 215 petabytes of data for up to 2,000 years.

Microsoft is working on a new kind of storage technology, called Project Silica, that could store data essentially forever without any electricity.

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