An Alternative to Hard Drives in the Coming Future:DNA-BASED DATA STORAGE


EOI: 10.11242/viva-tech.01.04.164

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Rajeshri Deshmukh, Chandani Patel, "An Alternative to Hard Drives in the Coming Future:DNA-BASED DATA STORAGE", VIVA-IJRI Volume 1, Issue 4, Article 164, pp. 1-8, 2021. Published by Computer Engineering Department, VIVA Institute of Technology, Virar, India.

Abstract

Demand for data storage is growing exponentially, but the capacity of existing storage media is not keeping up, there emerges a requirement for a storage medium with high capacity, high storage density, and possibility to face up to extreme environmental conditions. According to a research in 2018, every minute Google conducted 3.88 million searches, other people posted 49,000 photos on Instagram, sent 159,362,760 e-mails, tweeted 473,000 times and watched 4.33 million videos on YouTube. In 2020 it estimated a creation of 1.7 megabytes of knowledge per second per person globally, which translates to about 418 zettabytes during a single year. The magnetic or optical data-storage systems that currently hold this volume of 0s and 1s typically cannot last for quite a century. Running data centres takes vast amounts of energy. In short, we are close to have a substantial data-storage problem which will only become more severe over time. Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) are often potentially used for these purposes because it isn't much different from the traditional method utilized in a computer. DNA’s information density is notable, 215 petabytes or 215 million gigabytes of data can be stored in just one gram of DNA. First we can encode all data at a molecular level and then store it in a medium that will last for a while and not become out-dated just like floppy disks. Due to the improved techniques for reading and writing DNA, a rapid increase is observed in the amount of possible data storage in DNA.

Keywords

data storage, DNA, floppy disk, information density, optical data storage systems

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