According to reports in the U.S. media, the U.S. military is making an all-out effort to study a new way of storing data. The research team needs to develop a storage device with 1EB (1 billion GB) level of information processing capability within 10 years.
The 1EB data is about 4 million times more than the storage capacity of an iPhone X mobile phone (1 EB is equivalent to more than 1 billion GB, which can hold 100,000 times the amount of information written in the US Library of Congress. ). For storage of digital data, DNA storage technology has many unparalleled advantages compared to traditional storage methods.
Humans produce a lot of data every day, and US intelligence officials are looking for more efficient ways to preserve public information. Computer software company Domo estimates that by 2020 we can produce 140 gigabytes of data per person per day, and this A figure is expected to continue to grow afterwards.
