The machine will scale the encoding process, making it affordable and fast enough for commercial pilots slated for next year. With this technology, the information content of entire data centres could fit into the palm of your hand.
Having proven their proprietary method for encoding data in DNA, CATALOG has engaged Cambridge Consultants to support the scaling up of its platform, designing and building a machine that will encode the data at a speed of 1terabit in 24 hours. That’s equivalent to 64 hours of 1080p HD video. Such leaps in speed will help make it economically attractive to use DNA as the medium for long-term archival of data, says CATALOG.
It’s predicted that as soon as 2025,conventional mediums of storing data – hard drives in data centres, often accessed as cloud services – will no longer be capable of meeting our data storage needs.