My lab still does this (or, will do it when we’re finally allowed back in). We do a little bit of compression right on the instrument’s computer. After that, a

My lab still does this (or, will do it when we’re finally allowed back in). We do a little bit of compression right on the instrument’s computer. After that, a briskly-walking postdoc can move a few terabytes a minute. The exact rate depends on whether they stop for coffee, but it always blows our internal 100 Mbps network out of the water.