Cleversafe Announces 10 Exabyte Storage System Configuration

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[citation][nom]JamesSneed[/nom]Pretty crazy to think back in 1996 the Internet was estimated to be just under 2TB in total size and the largest storage farm in the world was about 75TB. Now we have a single storage solution that is 14,288,400 TB.[/citation]
And now you can buy 2TB hard drives for just $150.... dang... It's hard to believe my 2TB external hard drive can store a backup of the internet in 1996.
 
Eric Schmidt, the CEO of Google, the world’s largest index of the Internet, estimated the size of internet at roughly 5 million terabytes of data. That’s over 5 billion gigabytes of data, or 5 trillion megabytes. Schmidt further noted that in its seven years of operations, Google has indexed roughly 200 terabytes of that, or .004% of the total size.

World of Warcraft uses 1.3 petabytes of storage to maintain its game.
AT&T transfers about 19 petabytes of data through their networks each day
Google processes about 24 petabytes of data per day
As of May 2009, the size of the world's total digital content has been roughly estimated to be 500 Exabytes

1,0000PB is really huge. this is only used by mass surveillance systems.
 
[citation][nom]yorgos[/nom]back up the Internet? just sayin'...[/citation]
How much of it NEEDS backing up? Have you ever clicked on some of these absolutely retarded links found in some of your Google searches? What a waste of space.
 
[citation][nom]livebriand[/nom]And now you can buy 2TB hard drives for just $150.... dang... It's hard to believe my 2TB external hard drive can store a backup of the internet in 1996.[/citation]
I can believe that.
 
Well I learned a new word for the day. Never knew (or needed to know) what came after petabyte until now. Also, I may just be reading it wrong but the article subtitle seems to state that 10 Exabytes = 1,000 Petabytes but this is incorrect. An exabyte is 10^18th power bytes and a petabyte is 10^15th power bytes. So an exabyte is 1,000 petabytes and 10EB would be 10,000 PB.

Oh and btw, couldn't help looking up what comes after exabyte... 1,000 exabytes is a Zettabyte (ZB) and 1,000 ZB is a Yottabyte. I wonder how long until Moore's law predicts my cellphone will have a Yottabyte of storage on a nanoSD card smaller than a pencil eraser.
 



Your right about 10 Exabytes != 1,000 Petabytes.... course a few of us already noticed. See Melchior's post earlier and is has a few thumbs up. His post wasnt so descriptive well other than a facepalm but we all took that as yeah somone missed a zero.

As far as a Yottabyte in a cell phone, not going to happen. Your talking storage densities way sub atomic. In theory if we could get down to atomic densities like DNA we could store 250 Terabits per square inch take or give a little for how close you could pack the atoms. Cell phones won't exist by the time we could store a Yottabyte in a square inch or two if that is ever a possibility.
 
Not counting the porn the internet is about 3.5 TB. No worries about the porn, it's all backed up and safe in bomb proof subterranian bunkers in Iran.
 
"i wonder how long it 'd take b4 this kind of storage become standard in a way smaller form factor of course maybe when we reach the technology after QFHD"

Well ~20 years ago my computer had a 80 meg hard drive, today we have 4 terabyte drives.

If we continue at the same rate, in another 20 years we should be at roughly 200PB. Need another factor of 50 on top of that, if we double every 1.5 years and round up thats about 10 years.

So, roughly 30 more years till we have 10EB desktop drives. Assuming we dont run into any road blocks or make any leaps along the way!
 
[citation][nom]mrmaia[/nom]Now couple that article with http://www.tomshardware.com/pictur [...] e-sas.html and you imagine how HUGE this beast is.[/citation]
Unfortunately, the article is about another big storage solution. The pics show 8 nodes in a rack, the Cleversafe solution has 9 nodes per rack (189 nodes / 21 racks = 9 nodes/rack).
 
[citation][nom]ParrLeyne[/nom]Unfortunately, the article is about another big storage solution. The pics show 8 nodes in a rack, the Cleversafe solution has 9 nodes per rack (189 nodes / 21 racks = 9 nodes/rack).[/citation]

Sorry for not making my point clear. The provided link shows pics for a SINGLE PB of storage. 14,288,400 of them should be enormous, no matter what's the node density. Got it now?
 
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