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The Ultimate All-In-One Storage Solution

Posted by timothy on from the if-you-have-to-ask-you-can't-afford dept.

karnifex writes "Filled up your LaCie Bigger Disk already, and looking for a little more storage space? Good news! The Petabox is ready! 'The petabox by the Internet Archive is a machine designed to safely store and process one petabyte of information (a petabyte is a million gigabytes).' And luckily, as the Internet Archive notes, it's shipping-container friendly (20' x 8' x 8'). So save on delivery costs and order two!"

6 of 387 comments (clear)

  1. I'd buy one.... by david_reese · · Score: 5, Funny
    but I heard that all you can store on there are
    ...drumroll

    Peta-files

    1. Re:I'd buy one.... by Smidge204 · · Score: 5, Funny

      I heard the FBI managed to squeeze 1000 of these into their annual budget...

      Exa-Files.
      =simdge=

  2. Re:Finally by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Well, seeing as how monkeys type random gibberish,
    vi would seem like a perfect fit, yes?

  3. Re:Finally by foidulus · · Score: 5, Funny

    A British researcher actually did trap some monkeys inside a room with a computer for a couple days. They flung large amounts of feces at the monitor and keyboard and beat the living crap out of the box, and typed the letter s a lot. Sounds like the response of a typical user upon their first vi experience.

  4. Useless Statistics! by INMCM · · Score: 5, Funny

    1 MILLION GIGS! BAH! That isn't news unless they convert it to some entirely inappropiate metric. How many Library of Congresses is this? How many 128kbps MP3s can you store on it. And most importantly, how many floppy disks is this equivalent too?!

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  5. Immortality? by Sir+Nimrod · · Score: 5, Funny

    In his novel 3001 Arthur C. Clarke asserted/speculated that one petabyte would be sufficient space to store a lifetime's memories. (He didn't say if this was compressed.)

    So, assuming you can handle the trivial exercise of transferring your memories (the implementation of which is left as an exercise for the reader), immortality is yours for the buying!

    1. Transfer memories to Petabox. Sign with your public key, so everyone knows it's you. Don't encrypt!
    2. Put Petabox in shipping container, along with retrieval instructions in English, Esperanto, and Chinese (to cover your bases).
    3. Bury shipping container in Yucca Mountain. (It's unlikely to ever see any nuclear waste, and it'd be a shame to waste the space.)
    4. Kill yourself.
    5. Wait for a society (a) advanced enough to restore you and (b) rich enough to bother.
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