Excerpt:

“…One terabyte of data is not large by today’s standards. An external terabyte disk can be purchased for less than a few hundred dollars at any office supply store. Accumulating one terabyte per day, maintaining it for rapid online access, and archiving it for permanent storage is a familiar problem to the sequencing center and maybe even the core facility, but this is a novel problem for the small research group and individual principal investigator.“

Link to the full article:

GEN 2008, “Managing Data from Next-Gen Sequencing” (p.42,44)

Link to a PDF reprint:

Summary:

How will the ability to generate so much more sequence so cheaply affect the sequencing market, and what are the IT implications for analyzing all this data?

Article link:

http://www.bio-itworld.com/issues/2007/oct/inside-the-box-next-gen-sequencing/