DNA Data Storage Archival Service DeepArchive Launches: 1 Gram of DNA Stores 1 PB of Data for a Millennium

DNA Data Storage Archival Service DeepArchive Launches: 1 Gram of DNA Stores 1 PB of Data for a Millennium

DeepArchive, a DNA data storage commercial service developed by Microsoft Research and Twist Bioscience, officially launched on July 8. The service encodes digital data into DNA base sequences, synthesizes and dry-stores them, achieving ultra-high-density long-term archival storage.

DeepArchive achieves a storage density of approximately 1 PB (1,000 TB) per gram of DNA, with a theoretical preservation lifespan exceeding 1,000 years without degradation. Current write speeds are 10 MB per second, and read speeds are 50 MB per second. The end-to-end cost for the full encode-synthesize-store-sequence-decode pipeline is approximately $3,000 per TB.

The first customers include the Library of Congress and the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), using the service to archive vast collections of historical documents and particle physics experimental data. DeepArchive aims to reduce costs to levels comparable with traditional magnetic tape archival within five years.