What about the CIFs and corresponding files? There are situations where there is need to externally re-basecall the data with bustard. With BCLs alone this is not possible.
Storing CIF plus corresponding files takes up to 3.5TB per HiSeq flowcell ...
Storing CIF plus corresponding files takes up to 3.5TB per HiSeq flowcell ...
IMHO USB disks are not suited for such amount of data (especially when you are running more than one machine).
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