Think you have a lot of disk space? Oh, no you don't!
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OK, I have a lot for a single house: 12 * 4TB HDD, and gawd knows how many 1TB HDD and SSD powered up most of the time. But that's peanuts! CERN's storage swells beyond the exabyte barrier for LHC • The Register[^] and they process an average of 1PB of data every day ... :omg:
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt -
OK, I have a lot for a single house: 12 * 4TB HDD, and gawd knows how many 1TB HDD and SSD powered up most of the time. But that's peanuts! CERN's storage swells beyond the exabyte barrier for LHC • The Register[^] and they process an average of 1PB of data every day ... :omg:
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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thanks to the reading rate of the combined data store crossing, for the first time, the 1TB/s threshold."
WOW
I don't think before I open my mouth, I like to be as surprised a everyone else. PartsBin an Electronics Part Organizer - Release Version 1.1.0 JaxCoder.com Latest Article: SimpleWizardUpdate
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OK, I have a lot for a single house: 12 * 4TB HDD, and gawd knows how many 1TB HDD and SSD powered up most of the time. But that's peanuts! CERN's storage swells beyond the exabyte barrier for LHC • The Register[^] and they process an average of 1PB of data every day ... :omg:
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
Wow! Thanks for that. I recall when I filled up the 40 MB hard drive (megabytes) in my first PC. The choice back then was an 80 MB or 120 MB drive, over $300 if IIRC. Bought the 120 MB, figured I would never fill it up. On line back then, for me, was to a VAX at 300 baud. Everything was text. Someday, today will be the "good old days".
>64 Some days the dragon wins. Suck it up.
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Wow! Thanks for that. I recall when I filled up the 40 MB hard drive (megabytes) in my first PC. The choice back then was an 80 MB or 120 MB drive, over $300 if IIRC. Bought the 120 MB, figured I would never fill it up. On line back then, for me, was to a VAX at 300 baud. Everything was text. Someday, today will be the "good old days".
>64 Some days the dragon wins. Suck it up.
I remember when an 8" platter 8MB HDD was over $5,000 ...
Graeme
"I fear not the man who has practiced ten thousand kicks one time, but I fear the man that has practiced one kick ten thousand times!" - Bruce Lee
“I fear not the man who has practised 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practised one kick 10,000 times.” - Bruce Lee.
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I remember when an 8" platter 8MB HDD was over $5,000 ...
Graeme
"I fear not the man who has practiced ten thousand kicks one time, but I fear the man that has practiced one kick ten thousand times!" - Bruce Lee
Yep, the people I worked for bought one for their Apple computer. Sounded like a jet engine when it started up.
I don't think before I open my mouth, I like to be as surprised a everyone else. PartsBin an Electronics Part Organizer - Release Version 1.1.0 JaxCoder.com Latest Article: SimpleWizardUpdate
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OK, I have a lot for a single house: 12 * 4TB HDD, and gawd knows how many 1TB HDD and SSD powered up most of the time. But that's peanuts! CERN's storage swells beyond the exabyte barrier for LHC • The Register[^] and they process an average of 1PB of data every day ... :omg:
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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OK, I have a lot for a single house: 12 * 4TB HDD, and gawd knows how many 1TB HDD and SSD powered up most of the time. But that's peanuts! CERN's storage swells beyond the exabyte barrier for LHC • The Register[^] and they process an average of 1PB of data every day ... :omg:
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
Plenty of room on my ZX81
Paul Sanders. If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter - Blaise Pascal. Some of my best work is in the undo buffer.
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Plenty of room on my ZX81
Paul Sanders. If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter - Blaise Pascal. Some of my best work is in the undo buffer.
When I get a 16kb extension card, managed to wrote a flight simulator (yes it was me... not the spion one) good old times...
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When I get a 16kb extension card, managed to wrote a flight simulator (yes it was me... not the spion one) good old times...
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OK, I have a lot for a single house: 12 * 4TB HDD, and gawd knows how many 1TB HDD and SSD powered up most of the time. But that's peanuts! CERN's storage swells beyond the exabyte barrier for LHC • The Register[^] and they process an average of 1PB of data every day ... :omg:
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
About ten years ago, had worked on the data storage requirements of a reasonably big hospital in India. Considering one department, the Oncology department, which has PET-CT machines, a PET-CT scan for a single patient produces about 250 MB of image data. At a rate of 3 patients scanned per hour, this is 0.75 GB. Considering a 12 hour operation of this machine per day, the data comes to 9 GB per day. There are five such PET-CT machines, making it a data size of 45 GB per day, say, 50 GB per day. Considering 26 working days per month, this comes to 1.3 TB per month. Which is about 16 TB per year. Like this, there are other image-intensive departments like CT and MR, each producing a similar data, about 16 TB per year each. Which makes it 50 TB per year, for these three departments alone. There are departments like Ultrasound, Digital X-ray, which are less heavy with respect to data size. Regulations mandate that 3 years data is to be stored, which makes it 150 TB of data. Plus backup of the same size, 150 TB. This was ten years ago. Now, it would have increased, because images are now of a higher resolution.
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thanks to the reading rate of the combined data store crossing, for the first time, the 1TB/s threshold."
WOW
I don't think before I open my mouth, I like to be as surprised a everyone else. PartsBin an Electronics Part Organizer - Release Version 1.1.0 JaxCoder.com Latest Article: SimpleWizardUpdate
In the age of cloud?
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At one point I was going to build an 8088 machine. I built the power supply and then found out memory was $1.00 a Byte!
I remember a 64K S-100 bus RAM board that went for $1,495.
Software Zen:
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OK, I have a lot for a single house: 12 * 4TB HDD, and gawd knows how many 1TB HDD and SSD powered up most of the time. But that's peanuts! CERN's storage swells beyond the exabyte barrier for LHC • The Register[^] and they process an average of 1PB of data every day ... :omg:
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
OK, you have lot's of computers and each one has a number of terrabytes. Someplace you should be maintaining 2 backup images for each system, and daily or weekly diff files for each system. That's too much content for the cloud, given today's transfer speeds. You'd spend several days of continuous transfer time making a single backup. I backup all my computers using a pair of NAS-boxes I built (You can buy NAS-boxes, but they usually have huge prioce tags and don't include the drives). Mine run Linux. When I'm not activly pushing/pull from a backup, I keep them powered-down to protect the lifespan of the spinning oxide (harddrives). I have 2 NAS-boxes so that I can keep redundant copies. I don't use a RAID configuration in them. They are built with identical hardware, so if a card quits in one, I can pull a like item from the twin machine.
