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Linux Breaks 100 Petabyte Ceiling

Posted by timothy on from the no-stick-is-large-enough-to-shake dept.

*no comment* writes: "Linux has broken the barrier with the 100 petabyte ceiling, and doing it at 144 petabytes." And this is even more impressive in pebibytes, too.

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  1. 512? That can't be right. by fonebone · · Score: 4, Funny
    The 144 Petabyte figure is obtained by raising two to the power of 48, and multiplying it by 512.

    Hm, that can't be right, I swear I heard it was supposed to be two raised to the power of 50, multiplied by 128.. hm.

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  2. One Long Video by CritterNYC · · Score: 4, Funny

    This would be handy for over 8200 years of DVD video.

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    1. Re:One Long Video by lala · · Score: 5, Funny

      Great!
      Finally they can release the uncut version of '2001: A space Odyssey'

  3. Allright... I'll bite. by Bowie+J.+Poag · · Score: 4, Funny



    "144 PB should be enough for anybody."

    - Bowie J. Poag, November 7, 2001

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  4. Random statistics.... by tunah · · Score: 4, Funny
    Let's say you have this 144 petabyte drive. Okay it's friday, time to back up.

    So you whip out your two hundred million cd recordables, and start inserting them. Let's say you get 1 frisbee for each 25 700Mb CDs.

    This leaves you with eight million frisbees.

    That's a stack 13 kilometres high.

    So who needs this on a desktop OS again?

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    1. Re:Random statistics.... by ColaMan · · Score: 5, Funny

      So you whip out your two hundred million cd recordables, and start inserting them. Let's say you get 1 frisbee for each 25 700Mb CDs.

      Silly Moo!

      You back it up to your *other* 144 petabyte drive!

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