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A Yottabyte of Storage Per Year by 2013
Lucas123 writes "David Roberson, general manager of Hewlett-Packard's StorageWorks division, predicts that by 2013 the storage industry will be shipping a yottabyte (a billion gigabytes) of storage capacity annually. Roberson made the comment in conjunction with HP introducing a new rack system that clusters together four blade servers and three storage arrays with 820TB of capacity. Many vendors are moving toward this kind of platform, including IBM, with its recent acquisition of Israeli startup XIV, according to Enterprise Strategy Group analyst Mark Peters."
Impressed, you will be.
Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!
When I can say "I have a lotta yottabytes"
Under the new regime, wouldn't that be a "Yobibyte" or something similarly idiotic?
Done with slashdot, done with nerds, getting a life.
Yow! That's a lotta bytes!!!!
mcgrew's razor: Never attribute to stupidity that which can be explained by greedy self-interest
Well, here is one compelling reason to stop developing ever larger and larger storage - silly names.
And at the other end of the spectrum you have the nybble.
yotta yotta yotta...
Let me know when i can get a yottabyte of storage into my server. I have alot of porn I need to store.
I was getting concerned, it took over 10 minutes for someone to reference porn.
This new unit of data confuses me. I only think of data sizes in terms of Library of Congresses (LOCs), mass in terms of stones, and lengths in terms of horse hands. Now get off my lawn!
Well, there's spam egg sausage and spam, that's not got much spam in it.
This means I have to find a whole lot more porn if I want to keep up...
What, didn't you know Yottabyte was a Great Old One? First cousin of Nyarlothep, half brother of Shub Niggurath. Described as a multidimensional vortex of spinning disks emitting a terrible screeching, Yottabyte records the souls of the damned.
- None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton
Not to be confused with the Lolitabyte, which is a unit of measure peculiar to 2chan style boards...
Or in the vernacular: Crapload
Well, there's spam egg sausage and spam, that's not got much spam in it.
How much exactly does that mean?
;)
More pr0n than you can even imagine
Jumpstart the tartan drive.
So...
we now know a yottapede has A LOT of legs...
but we're left wondering what a yoctopus would look like.
I can't recall a time that billion has meant anything other than 10^9 amongst pleasant company. It's clearly winning the fight.
Knowledge is how to play a game, intelligence is how to win, wisdom is knowing what game to play.
I like to break out my Dec. 1986 copy of MacWorld and look at the prices for hard drives and RAM back then. Oh man, if I had a time machine, I scoop up a butt-load (metric) of 30 pin 1 MB SIMMS and live like a king.
In 1986.
Good gravy, I remember the music and pants back then.
Nooooooooo!
I drank what? -- Socrates
Oh come on, 640 yottabytes should be enough for anybody....
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