Comment by lkirk

Indeed, one could only imagine the cost of sequencing the dna to retrieve the data (not to mention the current lack of random access). Illumina's highest capacity sequencer will do 6Tb (terabases). The machine costs about half a million dollars and each run is tens of thousands of dollars, not to mention the lab costs of preparing/storing the dna. Additionally, the depth at which one would have to sequence to get _all_ of the data back reliably would be >1 meaning that every base would have to be sequence more than once (to avoid sequencing errors).