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The Ultimate All-In-One Storage Solution
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!"
If you gave me a 100 mbit line, it would take me over 92 days to fill it up with porn. More if I slept.
I'm probably at the karma cap. Mod up a funny troll instead, it lightens the mood
Good God.
or alternatively
What for?
At least as far as the next year or two is concerned. RIAA has all but outlawed music on the computer and even so, a petabyte of $1.25 songs would cost you more than bill gates makes in a year. If you have a petabyte of home movies, you must be making porno films.. If you have a petabyte of DVD's ripped, you have several life sentences coming, even if you own all the dvd's somehow (more bill gates salary multiples). And if you have text files, then holy grapes batman, youll never read all that in 10 lifetimes.
I can see uses in the comercial realm, buying multiple units in order to backup. But if this is in anyway marketed toward the consumer, only the biggest 'mine has to be bigger than yours' geek would buy something like that right now. I'll probably have one of those on my desk/floor about 5 to 7 years from now when its affordable/realisitic for me.
It's right there under the pictures :
http://capricorn-tech.com/
The site is rather empty right now, but it seems this is the company that will market this petabyte machine... er... box... er... whatever the name is.
The right to offend is far more important than the right not to be offended. (Rowan Atkinson)
Everyone I know says giga with a hard G. The only exception I know of is Christopher Lloyd's character in Back To The Future.
There are no trails. There are no trees out here.
I just use this:
Monkey Shakespeare Simulator
Maybe not as much fun, but without the faeces
I've noticed that Mozilla Firefox seems to give better results than IE
I believe that back in the 50s, the president of IBM enthusastically proclaimed that there was potentially a worldwide market for four, possibly even five computers. And this was good news.
So don't laugh!
(I'm sure there are PLENTY of organizations which could use this type of storage. The IRS and NASA being among them)
-- If you try to fail and succeed, which have you done? - Uli's moose
I'm heavily involved in a 5-6 year project to use the Arecibo telescope to search for new pulsars. The project uses a new 7-beam receiver system, each of which takes data from up to 1024 nearby frequency channels. The data is 16-bit sampled over 15000 times per second from each frequency channel. We need the time and frequency resolution to find exotic millisecond pulsars.
Over the couse of the survey we expect to take about 1 PB of data. We're still trying to figure out exactly how we will process and store it all.
For more info, you can poke around here.
How many Library of Congresses is this?
50
Oh, it isn't, either. Will you people knock it off already with the Library of Congress == 20TB comparison? It's some sort of inane computation made as if the collection were only books, and all the books were represented as ASCII text only. Well, guess what? It's not, and they're not.
American Memory alone is a good bunch of terabytes, and that's just a wee digitized slice, just several million objects, of all the stuff in the Library. There's a lot. Of Stuff. A lot a lot a lot. Pictures. Maps. Movies. Big ol' stuff.
Well, I feel better. Thanks!