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405 petabytes of storage in a modern supercomputer, most of it in tape drives

1 pointsby ctkrohnalmost 13 years ago

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stephengilliealmost 13 years ago
I'm interested to see how this stacks up against the Backblaze Pod:<p><a href="http://blog.backblaze.com/2011/07/20/petabytes-on-a-budget-v2-0revealing-more-secrets/" rel="nofollow">http://blog.backblaze.com/2011/07/20/petabytes-on-a-budget-v...</a><p>Edit: You'd have to build about 2882 Pods to reach 380 petabytes, but this cluster will be using <i>380,000</i> opertons, which implies about 1 terabyte of tape per CPU. For the Pods: <i>The newest cabinets squeeze one petabyte into three-quarters of a single cabinet for $56,696.</i>