Apparently, we are at the technical world with plenty of updated gadgets. These are gadgets are discovered and developed to scrutinize the heavy work and also to shrink everything on our hand. In this list, Researchers around worldwide working towards the mission to increase the data storage in a light weighted single particle.
Last year, tech giant Microsoft purchased 10 million strands of DNA synthesis from DNA start-up 'Twist Bioscience' at San Francisco. They collaborated with the researchers from Washington University to store data in DNA synthesis.
In this experiment, two researchers from Columbia University and New York Genome Centre(NYGC) came up with a new technique to store large amount of data in DNA. They stored around 214 petabytes of data in per gram DNA including Operating system, A 1895 French movie, A $50 Amazon gift card, A Computer virus, A pioneer plaque and 1948 study by information theorist Claude Shanon. And then, they had sent this code in a clean text format to Twist Bioscience Laboratory. Most horrible thing with this research is the cost involved here. To synthesis 2MB, researchers has spent$7000 and another $2000 to read the data. It is quite expensive
Holding this in hand, IBM has initiated a research just now to stored data in an atom- the most smallest particle in the world. Though this is tough try, but this try has yield better results to them. Last Wednesday, the company announced that, it has successfully devised a magnet, which let's them to store one bit of digital data in it. Even this is considered to be smallest amount of data, but their try proved that atoms are capable in storing data.
Till now, In hard drives, every single bit of digital data is stored using 100,000 atoms through traditional methods. But this research indicates that, In future more than 1000 times of information can be stored in same amount of space in future applications.
From these two researches, they are mitigations stating that, 'Future has no boundaries to data storage and there we experience the real digital era.'
