Internet Archive Gets 4.5PB Data Center Upgrade

Posted by timothy on Wednesday March 25, 2009 @10:47AM from the shipping-containers-are-rad dept.

Lucas123 writes "The Internet Archive, the non-profit organization that scrapes the Web every two months in order to archive web page images, just cut the ribbon on a new 4.5 petabyte data center housed in a metal shipping container that sits outside. The data center supports the Wayback Machine, the Web site that offers the public a view of the 151 billion Web page images collected since 1997. The new data center houses 63 Sun Fire servers, each with 48 1TB hard drives running in parallel to support both the web crawling application and the 200,000 visitors to the site each day."

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Never underestimate the bandwidth ... by Ungrounded+Lightning · 2009-03-25 11:15 · Score: 4, Insightful

... of a 4.5 petabyte datacenter in a shipping container in transit.

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Re:You can ship it over OC-192... by aaarrrgggh · 2009-03-25 12:55 · Score: 4, Insightful

Or, you can ship the 40' containers in just under two weeks!