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IBM Developing Largest Data Drive Ever, With 120 Petabytes

Posted August 26, 2011 11:32 AM

From Engadget:

So, this is pretty... big. At this very moment, researchers at IBM are building the largest data drive ever -- a 120 petabyte beast comprised of some 200,000 normal HDDs working in concert. To put that into perspective, 120 petabytes is the equivalent of 120 million gigabytes, (or enough space to hold about 24 billion, average-sized MP3's), and significantly more spacious than the 15 petabyte capacity found in the biggest arrays currently in use.

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08/26/2011 11:58 AM

Probably the U.S. treasury wants to keep track of the debt.......

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08/27/2011 2:14 AM

Those pirate servers need big drives

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08/29/2011 1:20 PM

And it still won't be enough.

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