[www.dailytech.com]

That's 1.3 million gigabytes. 2,760 500GB drives.



I think I would have to setup a 24x7 recording facility that would save absolutely everything that I could find a way for it to record. You know all those iTunes Radio Stations, 24x7 streaming music, videos, TV shows, whatever... They all get saved.

And then in 10 years I can kick myself because your new iPod infinity with holographic storage can eat this thing for lunch... oh to dream.

worlds largest porn collection?

is there a bigger picture?

jdc Wrote:
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> is there a bigger picture?

Yes, but it would break the Internet in any attempt to post it.

PETAbites sounds like finger food made from little animals.

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I would use it to store scaled versions of giant pictures
that I wanted to post to the forum.

Because it's the nice thing to do.

Unless it's a picture of a hot babe.

Not Marg Helgenberger or Joan Cusack.

I'm sure it will fill up fast enough.

It was only 10 years ago i started working on new power macs with 100 megabytes of storage and thinking, "Wow, all kinds of room!"

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And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.
—Friedrich Nietzsche
Western Massachusetts

What's with this anti Joan Cusack movement?

Don't forget Marg is on Thursday night.

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SteveJobs Wrote:
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> PETAbites sounds like finger food made from little
> animals.

Actually, PETAbites would be finger food made from people that like little animals.

Although, with the likes of Pam Anderson, there would be a lot of filler.

PETAbites - We're not your father's Soylent Green.

- Shadow

At work we have over 25 Terabytes of storage for our ERP systems. Probably over 20 terabytes composite for all the other servers, file stores, etc. Backup is a PITA- we're looking at virtual pull disks and DLT tapes- current tech is an older IBM tape robot.

Modern systems keep filling up the available storage. Do the math- 1,000,000 gigabytes. Say 100Gigabytes for a new wave HD movie. So there is room for 10,000 movies, right ? That's not a lot.

BTW, how weird? The box for the new post is on the right side of the page instead of the middle???

Anyway, my reaction to this amount of storage was to imagine a way to directly transfer all of one's thoughts and experiences to storage.

Now, I'm wondering how many of these 1.3 Petabytes storage systems would be required to store a weeks worth of input?

Heck, transfer your entire personality to storage and become the computer. Here's how: [en.wikipedia.org]

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"In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion." (1987) -- Carl Sagan