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 …

[Voland's right hand]

In other news

Seagate no longer has outstanding inventory problems.

[Mpeler]

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?

[Millwright]

So 1PB = 250,000 x 4TB ?

[Anonymous Coward]

look closely

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

[Dave Filesystem]

What?

1000 divided by 8 = 125.

Not 125,000.

You know that a PB = 1000 x TB right?