Re: Max Size Datafile in 10g

From: Daniel Morgan <damorgan_at_x.washington.edu>
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 22:34:09 -0700
Message-ID: <1095226517.850009@yasure>

Mark Townsend wrote:

>>> Life sciences (storage of 'individualized' genetic code maps ?) and CERN
>>> (the new linear accelerator and the hunt for the God particle)
>>
>> Really?

> 
> Really.
> 

>> Let me do some maths for a second (warning! warning!).
>>
>> The human genome is about 3,000,000,000 bases long.
>> Each base is just a single (English) letter, so can be represented in 1
>> byte. A human genome would thus require 375,000,000 bytes of storage,
>> which
>> is about 375MB.
>>
>> For the approximately 6 billion people on the planet, you would therefore
>> need 375MB*6,000,000,000 = 2,250,000,000,000MB, which is 2,250,000,000GB,
>> 2,250,000TB, 2,250 Petabytes or 2.25 Exabytes.

> 
> 
> Right - and if the 1 Exabyte figure for all current information is 
> correct then this would represent a 200+% increase in a very short time 
> frame. Sort of what I would call a data explosion.

And while you can't say it ... I can.

Three of the biggest are two government agencies ... likely we are all in those databases ... and a certain multimedia company busy squirreling away very very large BLOBs.

-- 
Daniel A. Morgan
University of Washington
damorgan_at_x.washington.edu
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Received on Wed Sep 15 2004 - 00:34:09 CDT