back to article Seagate offers California Uni genome data storage K-drives

Seagate has given the University of California, Santa Cruz a petabyte of Kinetic drives to store and access genomic data. Kinetic disk drives have direct access over the Ethernet, and a key:value store structure with an object-style PUT and GET interface. Andy Hospodor, UCSC’s executive director of the Storage Systems …

  1. Voland's right hand Silver badge

    In other news

    Seagate no longer has outstanding inventory problems.

  2. Mpeler
    Headmaster

    USC not the real U$C

    It should be called UC Santa Cruz, as it's part of the University of California. The acromyn should be UCSC (which is what they call themselves - taxpayers [and parents] have a rather different name...).

    "USC" refers to either the University of Southern California (which has an OUTSTANDING Engineering school, as well as Journalism, Music, Cinema, and a few obscure sports teams)(yes, I bleed Cardinal and Gold :) )

    or

    University of South Carolina (for folks in the south), which is also well respected.

    Hmmm, if there was some payola scandal, would it then be called US-Seagate?

  3. Millwright

    So 1PB = 250,000 x 4TB ?

  4. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    look closely

    This is the publicity a couple hundred thousand dollars can buy you.

  5. Dave Filesystem

    What?

    1000 divided by 8 = 125.

    Not 125,000.

    You know that a PB = 1000 x TB right?

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