Question Think we'll ever hit the 18 exobyte ceiling?

[jamesdsimone]

They kept under estimating memory usage/need. I remember when 4Gb is an unthinkable amount of ram.

 

[fzabkar]

One day we may store every person's genome in a database. That's 3 billion base pairs per person, x 2 bits per each of 4 base pairs, x 8 billion people. Currently that amounts to 6 exabytes.

 

[tcsenter]

One day we may store every person's genome in a database. That's 3 billion base pairs per person, x 2 bits per each of 4 base pairs, x 8 billion people. Currently that amounts to 6 exabytes.

Gotta factor in the file format and data descriptors. I'm told my whole genome sequence (WGS) datafile will be approx. 300 Gigabytes?