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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."
God, that hurts my head. I remember being at a university seminar in '91 or so, and one of the presenters was talking about petabytes.
At the time, it drew blank expressions and he had to explain that it was the one after terabytes (since that was an abstraction to most people).
I often find myself awed by just how much you can buy nowadays cheaply. I'm told that at Costco nowadays, you can buy a terabye of disk storage for about $250 CDN -- that's utterly mind-boggling to someone who remembers single-density, single-sided floppy drives.
Crazy stuff.
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No kidding, looking at how we got the prefixes in the first place we may run out of greek/latin words.
Hopefully it will come down to unobyte, dosbyte, or something with a number convention, otherwise we might be hearing "crazybyte" or "uberbyte".
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