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3 Terabytes, 80 Watts

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the all-your-reality-TV-are-belong-to-us dept.

legoburner writes "The Enquirer is reporting that Capricorn have released a mini-itx based 1U-sized storage computer featuring four 750-GB hard drives and a 1-Ghz controller system with a typical power usage of an astounding 80 W per machine. A full 40U rack only uses 3.2 kW, which is less than 30 kW for an entire Petabyte!"

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  1. Ouch by lucky13pjn · · Score: 2, Funny

    And they would need all that storage to record their utility bills.

    1. Re:Ouch by ackthpt · · Score: 4, Funny

      3200 Watts for 120 Terra bytes - that's like two hand-held hair dryers!

      Kids these days... we used to have these things called Mainframes. They had special 240v wiring, with BIG power cables. You could hear the circuitbreaker box HUM when you walked past. This is all a pittance.

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    2. Re:Ouch by thePowerOfGrayskull · · Score: 5, Funny

      Yea, but most people dont run two hair-dryers 24/7

      You haven't met my wife.

    3. Re:Ouch by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      Yea, but most people dont run two hair-dryers 24/7

      You haven't met my wife.

      Those aren't hair dryers.

    4. Re:Ouch by modecx · · Score: 3, Funny



              3200 Watts for 120 Terra bytes - that's like two hand-held hair dryers!

      Or 28,000 kWh per year, i.e. $2800 at $0.10 per kWh (not sure what the going rate is nowadays).


      In other words, if you have the money to afford 120 terabytes of storage, let alone the need to have and use that storage, you can probably afford to pay for the electricity to run it.

      And as a bonus, you could lease the exhaust from your 120 terabyte storage system to a nearby hair salon so you can kill two birds with one stone.

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  2. Can I get that petabyte in Cornflower Blue? by SpasticMutant · · Score: 5, Funny

    As long as it's not silver, black or grey, I'm fine with adding another petabyte to my current configuration. If only my file system could handle it...

    1. Re:Can I get that petabyte in Cornflower Blue? by keithmo · · Score: 5, Funny

      But mauve has the most RAM.

  3. Sounds heavy by BadAnalogyGuy · · Score: 5, Funny

    Knowing my luck, I'd probably tip the rack over and lose all the bank data to a massive head crash.

    If information is power, then this thing is a perpetual motion machine.

  4. I think I'll buy the house... by BlahMatt · · Score: 5, Funny
    "you could have every reality TV program at your fingertips for a little less than the cost of an average house."
    Thank you I think I'll buy the house...

    A) Because why would you want every reality TV program at your fingertips?
    B) Because we already do (See http://bittorrent.com/)
    C) Because... just because.
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    1. Re:I think I'll buy the house... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      Also, you can live in a house. Have you tried living in a Mini-ITX case though?

    2. Re:I think I'll buy the house... by mordors9 · · Score: 1, Funny

      Your inclusion of B makes you subject to serious fines and possible imprisonment. Please remit $2000 to my address to avoid impending litigation.

    3. Re:I think I'll buy the house... by KevinIsOwn · · Score: 2, Funny

      I don't think I really understand their cost comparison...

      How many Libraries of Congress is that?

  5. It's still not big enough! by kcbrown · · Score: 5, Funny

    Not when I keep getting a new internet every few minutes. A whole internet every few minutes! Can you imagine how many libraries of congress that is? I don't know about you, but I'd have a lot of trouble stuffing an entire library of congress into one of those tubes! And since the library of congress is obviously a lot bigger than this storage computer, there's no way you could stuff it into it!

    Until they come out with one of these that's bigger than the library of congress, I'm not buying!

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    1. Re:It's still not big enough! by Mister+Whirly · · Score: 2, Funny

      "You're allowed to make jokes about senators' computer knowledge (or lack thereof) when you can tell us what "cloture" is - without Googling for it."

      Culture for blood clots?

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  6. Bah by bunions · · Score: 3, Funny

    I'm not interested in no mini-itx box unless it's wedged into an adorable, panda-like case. http://www.norhtec.com/products/panda/index.html

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  7. You can get that in any colour you like by ackthpt · · Score: 2, Funny

    Can I get that petabyte in Cornflower Blue?...As long as it's not silver, black or grey, I'm fine with adding another petabyte to my current configuration. If only my file system could handle it...

    You can get that in any colour you like, as long as it's Beige

    muah ha ha ha haaaa!

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  8. Re:Where do you live? by Alaria+Phrozen · · Score: 4, Funny

    You think that's bad? My CPU fan consumes 70+ watts.

    What's worse the rig I built to cool my harddrives is essentially a system of Peltier devices http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peltier-Seebeck_effec t in series!

    The very premise of the grandparent is ridiculous. Now if it were one-point-twenty-one-jigga-watts, I'd be worried, but 80 watts? I've got more on in light bulbs right now!