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

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