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Microsoft experiments with DNA storage: 1Billion TB's in a gram

• Analemma_ 11y ago
  > A custom DNA sequence costs about 10 cents per base, with Twist hoping to get that cost down to 2 cents. A quick trip to Wolfram Alpha says that this works out to about $400 million per gigabyte. Obviously it will come down, but even with exponentially decreasing cost this has a long way to go before it becomes competitive with magnetic storage. Still, it's good to see that there's more attention being paid to the need of very-long-term storage, which is woefully inadequate at the moment.