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New NCSA build - 380pb of Tape storage!

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May 26, 2012 11:33:24 AM

An interesting little bit on how the other end of the computing community lives. The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) is building a storage infrastructure consisting of 380 petabytes of magnetic tape capacity and 25 petabytes of disk storage. [Ars Technica]

It's amazing how some technologies have just lasted.

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a b G Storage
May 26, 2012 3:14:17 PM

That is an absolutely immense amount of storage. Want. :D 
May 26, 2012 8:51:39 PM

It was the throughput that killed me, 2.2pb per hour transfer rates.

Let's put that into perspective, it's a full drive image of every last laptop, desktop and server for my last employer across all their UK offices in less than 40 minutes. The 7 hour backup window we had would allow for the complete image of the entire European operations, providing you could get the i/o from the sources.

For somebody that started out measuring data capacity by the minutes of audio his cassette tapes held it's a complete and utter head munching number to comprehend.


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May 27, 2012 12:48:31 AM

Just wow...

(This is coming from the person who struggles to use more than 40GiB of space)

:D 
a b G Storage
May 27, 2012 5:35:26 AM

thats a lot of petafiles
May 27, 2012 10:38:06 AM

When I was younger I used to make the assurtion that petabytes was the standard storage unit for paedophiles. ;) 

Guess I'm wrong again.
May 27, 2012 11:09:48 AM

That makes sense, an Exabyte is the unit used by my phsychotic ex to store all the edited images where masked my face has been masked out and replaced with that of Steve Balmer.
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