Hey, computer geeks. Got storage?

[Fly320s]

My brother works for this outfit, Network Applications.  Here's a slide show of one of their data centers and power supply systems.

edited to add: Total storage =

All our systems and our data, 80 PB worth.

petabyte = 9.00719925 ? 1016 bytes

www.netapp.com/go/techontap/matl/DC_slideshow/index.html

[Manedwolf]

Bet I could fill it with raw HD footage inside of a week.

[RevDisk]

My brother works for this outfit, Network Applications.  Here's a slide show of one of their data centers and power supply systems.

edited to add: Total storage =

All our systems and our data, 80 PB worth.

petabyte = 9.00719925 ? 1016 bytes

www.netapp.com/go/techontap/matl/DC_slideshow/index.html

Odd, it said "which we use to manage 80 storage systems and 1.8PB of data" in the second slide.  That just a fraction of the storage systems?

At my former employer (at one of DISA's DECC), we measured storage in roughly 800 Tb 'containers'.  The exact number is probably classified, but we have thousands of them.  Nifty thing is, no one is ever completely sure where exactly any specific container exists on the classified systems.  Even us bit slingers.  Our DECC had OC-192's to a couple dozen different places.  Of course, NSA has use beat by several orders of magnitude.  When they expand, there's a global shortage of fiber optics.   

Don't feel too bad, it's a nice lil setup.  Well thought out, very efficient

[charby]

I thought I was cool with 10 TB of storage.

[Mabs2]

My brother works for this outfit, Network Applications.  Here's a slide show of one of their data centers and power supply systems.

edited to add: Total storage =

All our systems and our data, 80 PB worth.

petabyte = 9.00719925 ? 1016 bytes

www.netapp.com/go/techontap/matl/DC_slideshow/index.html

C:\  19.5gb with 1.35gb free
D:\  115gb with 1.6gb free
E:\  56.7gb with 390mb free.

So h8.

[Manedwolf]

I have 2 TB on my desk, and it's almost full.

[Brad Johnson]

For the conversionally challenged, a petabyte is a quadrillion bytes.

Mega = million
Giga = billion
Tera = trillion
Peta = quadrillion.

So to put it in perspective...

80 petabytes is 80 million gigabytes.

If you were doing things the old-fashioned way and typing using courier font, 1" margins, and single-spaced lines, you would get about 500 words per page (roughly 2500 characters).  At that rate it would take 32 trillion pages to equal 80 Pb of data.  That's 128 billion reams of paper.  At 2" per ream the pile would be 4 million miles high (and that's stacked flat!).  That's 16 times the distance from the earth to the moon.  Or a few trips around earth's equator.  168 of them, to be exact. 

Set the paper end to end and it would be a line of pages 5.6 billion miles long, or 60 times the distance from the earth to the sun.  At 186,282.397 miles per second it would take a beam of light 8.3 hours to traverse the distance.

And if that isn't enough...

If every one of the estimated 320 million people of the United States could sustain a 100 wpm typing speed, and do so for eight hours a day every day, it would take 104.16 days to finish an 80 Pb document.

Brad

[Manedwolf]

Or to use more depressing stats, that much could hold an entire years' worth of "Funniest Home Video" clips of Americans engaged in drunken pratfalls in HD. 

[Brad Johnson]

I figure about an hour and half.

Brad

[atomd]

Wow, you could really get a good porn collection on that!

[Fly320s]

Thanks, Brad.

I can wrap my brain around that.

[Mabs2]

For the conversionally challenged, a petabyte is a quadrillion bytes.

Mega = million
Giga = billion
Tera = trillion
Peta = quadrillion.

So to put it in perspective...

80 petabytes is 80 million gigabytes.

If you were doing things the old-fashioned way and typing using courier font, 1" margins, and single-spaced lines, you would get
about 500 words per page (roughly 2500 characters).  At that rate it would take 32 trillion pages to equal 80 Pb of data.  That's 128 billion reams of paper.  At 2" per ream the pile would be 4 million miles high (and that's stacked flat!).  That's 16 times the distance from the earth to the moon.  Or a few trips around earth's equator.  168 of them, to be exact. 

Set the paper end to end and it would be a line of pages 5.6 billion miles long, or 60 times the distance from the earth to the sun.  At 186,282.397 miles per second it would take a beam of light 8.3 hours to traverse the distance.

And if that isn't enough...

If every one of the estimated 320 million people of the United States could sustain a 100 wpm typing speed, and do so for eight hours a day every day, it would take 104.16 days to finish an 80 Pb document.

Brad

You must be bored.