{"id":146544,"date":"2022-09-16T23:23:39","date_gmt":"2022-09-17T04:23:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/why-are-hard-drive-companies-investing-in-dna-data-storage"},"modified":"2022-09-16T23:23:39","modified_gmt":"2022-09-17T04:23:39","slug":"why-are-hard-drive-companies-investing-in-dna-data-storage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/why-are-hard-drive-companies-investing-in-dna-data-storage","title":{"rendered":"Why are hard drive companies investing in DNA data storage?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The research community is excited about the potential of DNA to function as long-term archival storage. That\u2019s largely because it\u2019s extremely dense, chemically stable for tens of thousands of years, and comes in a format we\u2019re unlikely to forget how to read. While there has been<\/a> some interesting progress<\/a>, efforts have mostly stayed in the research community because of the high costs and extremely slow read and write speeds. These are problems that need to be solved before DNA-based storage can be practical.<\/p>\n

So we were surprised to hear that storage giant Seagate had entered into a collaboration with a DNA-based storage company called Catalog. To find out how close the company\u2019s technology is to being useful, we talked to Catalog\u2019s CEO, Hyunjun Park indicated that Catalog\u2019s approach is counterintuitive on two levels: It doesn\u2019t store data the way you\u2019d expect, and it isn\u2019t focusing on archival storage at all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The research community is excited about the potential of DNA to function as long-term archival storage. That\u2019s largely because it\u2019s extremely dense, chemically stable for tens of thousands of years, and comes in a format we\u2019re unlikely to forget how to read. While there has been some interesting progress, efforts have mostly stayed in the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19,1523],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-chemistry","category-computing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146544\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}