Topic List

Click a topic to learn more.


Term of the Moment

cable categories


Look Up Another Term


Definition: DNA storage


A storage architecture that uses synthetic DNA. Developed by molecular biologists, digital data is encoded as a sequence in the DNA and decoded by sequencing the DNA. Compared to hard drives and solid state drives (SSDs) DNA storage is expected to have both greater capacity and data retention by orders of magnitude. Thus far, read and write speeds are much slower. See hard disk and SSD.