[HN Gopher] An exabyte of disk storage at CERN
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An exabyte of disk storage at CERN
Author : kakokeko
Score : 23 points
Date : 2023-09-30 18:28 UTC (4 hours ago)
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| BryanLegend wrote:
| That's about 1/18th of the 64 bit address space!
| klysm wrote:
| 64 bits should be enough for anybody. I remember reading
| exabyte many years back and thinking it was a truly absurd
| number to be in one place
| kemotep wrote:
| Even storing everything in 100 Gigabyte "8k Blu-ray quality
| chunks", you would have to be storing 10 Million Movies and
| TV shows to reach 1 exabyte worth of storage. At an average
| of 30 minutes each, that would take something like 500 years
| to watch all of 24/7.
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| And that's 1/18th the total space a 64 bit number could
| address. So yeah, 64 bits should be enough.
| mcbrienollie wrote:
| "the one terabyte per second (1 TB/s) threshold". This is
| definitely something extremely good for the research pipelines.
| Also, Moore's Law and Kryder's Law seems not applicable that much
| on their current state.
| Quekid5 wrote:
| Ha, I remember doing a[0] 3-month stint as a student there back
| when a single PiB got oohs-and-aaahs! So crazy to see how much
| happened in terms of storage capacity in the intervening 20+
| years.
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| [0] Completely insignificant to them, but a good learning
| experience to me!
| sebazzz wrote:
| It's not entirely clear if this is physical space or effective
| space (available after raid and parity).
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