News Rubin telescope to collect up to 500,000 TB of data from 3,200-megapixel camera over ten years — each image is 6.4 GB, facility has its own data ce...

[Admin]

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is collecting so much data it might end up with 500 million billion bytes worth of image data over the course of a decade.

Rubin telescope to collect up to 500,000 TB of data from 3,200-megapixel camera over ten years — each image is 6.4 GB, facility has its own data ce... : Read more

 

[Konomi]

65,536 shades of gray? I thought there were only 50.

 

[Firestone]

Cool but let's stop pretending that 500PB of storage is a lot. It isn't. We had over 100PB more than a decade ago.