Largest Commercial Storage?

[DrZoidberg]

Do we have multi petabyte hard drives yet? I think that would be needed for a person's entire DNA readout.

 

[beers]

Single drives nah, you can shove a bunch of 18T drives into a large array though.

 

[johnb35]

I believe 18TB is the highest available for a consumer at the moment. A quick google search would've answered this pretty quick.

 

[OmniDyne]

I think that would be needed for a person's entire DNA readout.

I guess the others thought this was a normal response?

 

[DrZoidberg]

I guess the others thought this was a normal response?

What are you saying? I know most people don't need this type of storage but I guess services currently exist to give a person their entire DNA sequence. I just wanted to know how such data could be stored after it is read by a lab.

 

[beers]

I guess the others thought this was a normal response?

Eh shrug, huge SANs have been a thing for a while I just assumed he pulled the figure from somewhere.

I just wanted to know how such data could be stored after it is read by a lab.

You can use a SAN style setup to tie a bunch of drives together, there's a bunch of different ways to slice it out, but you can scale it to however much budget you have.

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