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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!"

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  1. In 10 years ... by Bob+Loblaw · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Will we find one of these things in eBay in 10 years selling for $10 and feel all nostalgic about those days when that amount of storage media was the size of a room?

    1. Re:In 10 years ... by DrEldarion · · Score: 4, Insightful

      It does make you nostalgic thinking about things like that. I have more storage on a tiny card in my digital camera right now than every computer in the computer lab at my Jr. High had combined. My cell phone is more powerful than my first desktop computer. I can download in 5 minutes what would have taken me a month to download back then. Ah, technology.

  2. Not really a Petabyte...yet by Berylium · · Score: 4, Insightful

    From the site:

    PILOT STATUS 5/2004
    * The first 100TB Rack is up and running!
    * The second 100TB Rack will be up by the end of May
    * Thermal Targets have been met
    * Systems Booted from USB Dongle
    * Reiser FS running
    * PC-based Router running

    Maybe I'm missing something but this looks to me like they don't really have a Petabyte of storage working but plans to incorporate a Petabyte of storage with only 100 TB up and running now. Not that 100 TB is anything to brush off.

  3. To bad it won't last... by gremlins · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I know the pull is to get these things as big as you can get but i would love to see hard drives that will work for ever. Now I know everything breaks but I mean in 400 years how is anyone going to know what we were like if all the data on us slowly goes away because the hard drives or the cds don't really last very long

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  4. Re:two words by pbox · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Assuming 2 layered disks that is 10 GB per disk (feeling generous).
    100 disk -> 1 TB
    15000 disks -> 150 TB.

    Netflix has a "mere" collection of 15000 disks. Your patebyte disk is only 1/6th full.

    You upload all music CDs: 1 GB per disk (feeling generous).

    How many CDs can be in print? Maybe a 500,000?

    That is only 500 TB. Now your disk is 2/3rd full.

    Lets upload all printed material. May or may not fit in the rest.

    Then again, if you want to archive the internet: ~6G pages. 10kB each. 60 TB. each run. Store the last 16 versions -> 1TB.

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