IBM Builds Monster 120-Petabyte Data "Drive"

[exfileme]

This massive storage is for a supercomputer used by an unnamed client, and includes 200,000 physical drives.

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[burnley14]

They built this for me. I have a pretty big music library. . .

 

[NapoleonDK]

It's for porn, obviously. =\ The new ".xxx" domain now has a home.

Also, inb4 "can I install Crysis?" XD

 

[daygall]

thats alot of pron O_O

on a more serious note *cough*

cant wait for more miniaturization 3tb now hopefully 6-8 in by 2015... baring the Apocalypse lol

 

[bavman]

"unnamed client" = someone with too much porn and not enough harddrive estate

 

[techseven]

Advanced tagging, mapping and storage of porn?

120 Petabytes = 120.000 Terabytes / 2TB per drive would equal 60.000 2TB drives, but they store it on 200.000 drives?

120.000 Terabytes / 200.000 drives = 600MB per drive. So they must need all these drives to make it fast enough...?

 

[zanny]

[citation][nom]daygall[/nom]thats alot of pron O_Oon a more serious note *cough*cant wait for more miniaturization 3tb now hopefully 6-8 in by 2015... baring the Apocalypse lol[/citation]

We have been pushing the limits of mechanical disk reading lasers. Blue spectrum is the smallest imprint we are going to get, and the data error limits on drives past 3 terabytes are really small, in that it is very likely to have a bad sector somewhere on the disk by that point.

 

[oparadoxical_]

[citation][nom]techseven[/nom]120 Petabytes = 120.000 Terabytes / 2TB per drive would equal 60.000 2TB drives, but they store it on 200.000 drives?120.000 Terabytes / 200.000 drives = 600MB per drive. So they must need all these drives to make it fast enough...?[/citation]
Actually, 120 petabytes=122,880Tb which equals 61,440 individual 2Tb HDDs.
Then, the 122,880tb=125,829,120Gb and if you divide that by 200,000, you get about 630gb per HDD.

 

[PennyLife]

I can only imagine two different types of entities that would want to purchase this:

- A military agency, OR

- A company that is preparing for and aiming to be a big provider of cloud services.

 

[Pyree]

In raid 0 (good luck finding the 1 drive which fails)!



Only joking, of course they won't be in raid 0.

 

[jsanthara]

Do you think it will cost more than $150, because I have a little over $300 and I want to buy 2.

 

[dalethepcman]

This is probably to backup facebook, so the advertisers can find historical data a million years from now, and match your great great great.....(x100) great grand sons face to yours for their next gen ancestry.com ad's

 

[zoemayne]

facebook data isn't that large...... not the text info

 

[Azimuth01]

Google must be about to hatch their master plan....
First: consolidate all the information they ever collected onto one machine
Next: Begin analyzing trends using variables and timetables from every known source
Lastly: Use this information to predict the future and take over the world

 

[Azimuth01]

Google must be about to hatch their master plan....
First: consolidate all the information they ever collected onto one machine
Next: Begin analyzing trends using variables and timetables from every known source
Lastly: Use this information to predict the future and take over the world

 

[a sandwhich]

[citation][nom]jsanthara[/nom]Do you think it will cost more than $150, because I have a little over $300 and I want to buy 2.[/citation]
lol wut?

 

[balister]

[citation][nom]techseven[/nom]Advanced tagging, mapping and storage of porn?120 Petabytes = 120.000 Terabytes / 2TB per drive would equal 60.000 2TB drives, but they store it on 200.000 drives?120.000 Terabytes / 200.000 drives = 600MB per drive. So they must need all these drives to make it fast enough...?[/citation]

You're forgetting the overhead for running as a RAID 10. So likely 1.5 TB with double the drives for the mirroring.

So, 90k for one RAID 0 and then another 90k for the other side of the mirror of the RAID 0.

 

[Azimuth01]

[No message]

 

[FloKid]

Oh boy I hope they have a pretty good Anti Virus

 

[Azimuth01]

Google must be about to hatch their master plan....
First: consolidate all the information they ever collected onto one machine
Next: Begin analyzing trends using variables and timetables from every known source
Lastly: Use this information to predict the future and take over the world

 

[Azimuth01]

multiple posts....
I can't remove them, why?

 

[mcd023]

I'm not the RAID expert, but would a RAID 5 be better for redundancy? I know that the 2 drives in a RAID 10 that have the same data failing are improbable, but I was just wondering.

On another thought: think of how many drives they'll be replacing like, what, every day? I've heard of large arrays needing several replacement drives/wk. Imagine this!

 

[chickenhoagie]

[citation][nom]mcd023[/nom]I'm not the RAID expert, but would a RAID 5 be better for redundancy? I know that the 2 drives in a RAID 10 that have the same data failing are improbable, but I was just wondering.On another thought: think of how many drives they'll be replacing like, what, every day? I've heard of large arrays needing several replacement drives/wk. Imagine this![/citation]I think you're right. RAID 5 is the best RAID solution for mirroring/backup as far as I know. Certainly better than RAID 10

 

[Guest]

It stores every phone call, text message, email, message board, forum post, and news comment (and miscellaneous) from around the world. It stores, searches for specific words, names, and phrases, and determines the relevance, if any, then permanently saves (xferred to smaller system) or purges the data. All voice and data communications are being rerouted through specific satellites in geosynchronous orbit around the earth.

 

[Guest]

I got 600 000 000 000 000 , which should be 600tbs for drive. Or would be.

Given that 120pbs would equal 120 000 000 000 000 000 000.

Still seems like theres a varible of different not included somewhere even on this scale.

But after checking again for like the 5 time be 600gs per drive for peta.

K-zon:

Then whatever that would round too or from on ideas of how hard drives say calculate.


Shouldn't be that hard of a problem at like all, but seems to have its place of "catch" for some reason.