Hi all
Won't be too long before 1 PETABYTE (1,000 TB) drives start appearing soon for personal computers -- but imagine breaking one or losing that much data.
Here's an IBM announcement for 14 PB array from a year ago so "Expect to see them in the stores before XMAS".
Meanwahile IBM announces 14 petabyte NAS array | Desktop Hardware | ZDNet UK
Cheers
jimbo
Wow!1PB seems huge but 14! Then again it wasn't so long when 1TB seemed crazy! I can remember buying a 256MB memory stick for about £15 5 years ago and at the time it was a bargain! Now for that price you can get a 16GB memory stick!
Dam with 14 PB I might actually finish this download. > http://www.w3schools.com/downloadwww.htm
Hi there
did you insert the disk into Drive A.
Cheers
jimbo
For a single PB drive, I don't think we'll see them for a while, considering the lengths Seagate and Western Digital had to go to to get more than 2.1TB drives working on consumer PCs to get around the logical block address limit.
Interesting. Could you fit 1PB onto a 3.5" platter? What dimensions would a 1PB platter have?
5 inch platter with a 5.25 form factor?
Can't remember where I read it, but few months ago I read researchers had found a way to fit more space on to platters than what's currently possible.
Clever.
For some reason, I'm feeling a bit skeptical of trying to use Drive A for this task...
The last big improvement I remember reading about was a few years ago they started making the bits vertical in order to pack more onto each platter.
So such a drive, I would expect, would be a large box of platters.
There are physical limitations for the current drives, just as there are for processor chips.
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