What Does One Petabyte Of Storage (And $500K) Look Like?

[Guest]

How about creating big hardisk,maybe the size of 5 1/4 inch ? or bigger
I believe we can get much bigger capacity with it.
and many customer are willing to buy such hardisk

 

[valeadmagnet]

I am with IssueMonkey, haplo602, and Casper42 - the is really low-end way of doing storage, and not meant for the enterprise or online storage. I would feel bad for the admin tasked to maintain it. At EMC I often work with customers with dozens and even hundreds of petabytes, and I am sure folks at HDS, HP, NetApp, IBM, ect... would voice similar sentiment.

 

[prononbiasedgamerenthusiast]

Use 6 of those in raid 0

 

[xzendor]

Fascinating Article Bite - That's A Massive Amount Of Memory. I Would Assume That Such Storage Systems Are Not Intended To Be Backed Up, Since The Small Capacity Of Optical Drives And There Slow Speed Would Require A Fantastic Amount Of Drives And Disc.

 

[seyffu]

anort3: "Honey, I downloaded the internet!"
Actually more like 10 PB!!! Look at a video of this cool project at
http://www.youtube.com/channel/HCc5Pf9cMETMM
and visit there site at http://archive.org/

 

[Fouchey]

50 years from now everyone is going to look back saying "I can't believe how excited they were over a single petabyte"