Slappie 9 #1 October 8, 2004 I just saw this thing.. The Bigger Disk 1.6 Terabyte of storage!! I remember when I was just getting into computers and you were a CAD Draftsmen using Autocad, you had a HUGE 40mg HD. WoW! A terabyte is a unit of measurement in computers. Because of irregularities in definition and usage of the kilobyte, the exact number of bytes in a terabyte in common practice could be either of the following values: 1. 1,000,000,000,000 bytes - 10 12. This definition is used in most contexts relating to disk storage, networking, or other hardware. 2. 1,099,511,627,776 bytes - 10244 or 240. This is 1024 times a gigabyte (a binary gigabyte). This is the definition most often used in computer science and computer programming; most software uses this definition. "Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them." Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Slappie 9 #2 October 8, 2004 Just to show the size... A typical video store contains about 8 terabytes of video. The books in the largest library in the world, the U.S. Library of Congress, contain about 20 terabytes of text. "Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them." Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
PhreeZone 20 #3 October 8, 2004 The size of the database we have here at work with all the creditcard data in it will reach the 2 Terrabyte level before Xmas of this year You want to figure in all the other DB's we have here and I think last count was over 10 terras worth of data. Hytachi loves us Yesterday is history And tomorrow is a mystery Parachutemanuals.com Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kelpdiver 2 #4 October 8, 2004 QuoteJust to show the size... A typical video store contains about 8 terabytes of video. The books in the largest library in the world, the U.S. Library of Congress, contain about 20 terabytes of text. I don't think that's true anymore, Slappie. A single movie DVD runs 6-8Gigs on average, so that's about 1200-1300 movies. I have about 250 at home myself, and that's not very extensive. That unit must be using multiple disks, but it didn't really say what was inside. Hopefully some form of redundency. It takes a long time to restore that much data. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ypelchat 0 #5 October 8, 2004 QuoteHytachi loves us Hitachi Yves. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
edwinsneller 0 #6 October 8, 2004 QuoteThat unit must be using multiple disks, but it didn't really say what was inside. Hopefully some form of redundency. It takes a long time to restore that much data. I think it has 4 400GB drives inside.--- Some days it's not even worth the effort to chew through the restraints. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
PhreeZone 20 #7 October 8, 2004 Yeah.. there is a reason they won't let me near the hardware anymore Yesterday is history And tomorrow is a mystery Parachutemanuals.com Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
adamjenner 0 #8 October 8, 2004 our high school up the way was running a terabyte system for something. fuck i didn't even know they had terabyte systems out yt. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BlindBrick 0 #9 October 9, 2004 Quoteour high school up the way was running a terabyte system for something. fuck i didn't even know they had terabyte systems out yt. For a long time, Wal-Mart's corporate offices in Bentonville, AR had the worlds largest datastore. It was well into the Teras back when people were first getting impressed by gigabyte drives. -Blind"If you end up in an alligator's jaws, naked, you probably did something to deserve it." Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Viking 0 #10 October 9, 2004 man i remember seeing an old 25mb hard drive. The platters were bigger than an LP!!!!I swear you must have footprints on the back of your helmet - chicagoskydiver My God has a bigger dick than your god -George Carlin Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ypelchat 0 #11 October 9, 2004 QuoteQuoteour high school up the way was running a terabyte system for something. fuck i didn't even know they had terabyte systems out yt. For a long time, Wal-Mart's corporate offices in Bentonville, AR had the worlds largest datastore. It was well into the Teras back when people were first getting impressed by gigabyte drives. -Blind I remember when i got my first IBM pc. A 64K computer with a 360K 5.25 drive. I just couldn't afford the 5Mb HD then. Loading Lotus 123 took forever........ I am truly amazed at the prices of hard drives these days. I have 540Gb of HD space on my computer, and USB2 and Firewire drives makes it easy to add even more storage space. I just don't back-up to a tape drive anymore. What amazes me even more, is the memory capacity of the small Compact Flash memory cards. 2Gb, widely available, and 16Gb on the drawing board. Yves. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kelpdiver 2 #12 October 9, 2004 Quote For a long time, Wal-Mart's corporate offices in Bentonville, AR had the worlds largest datastore. It was well into the Teras back when people were first getting impressed by gigabyte drives. It may still be one of the biggest. I was being trained on the database they use, Teradata, and it was of course their favorite example. I believe it was up to 240 nodes, but I don't recall the data space size. Our 6 node unit came initially with 3TB of space. Evil or not, Walmart has been very intelligent about using data to make future choices. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DShiznit 0 #13 October 9, 2004 I say the word "Terabyte" about 100x a day.... Part of the "spiff" of being a sales guy for a NAS/SAN vendor! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Frenchy68 0 #14 October 9, 2004 Man, I can remember my Apple Superdrive SE, with a whooping 1MB of RAM!!! "For once you have tasted Absinthe you will walk the earth with your eyes turned towards the gutter, for there you have been and there you will long to return." Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
murrays 0 #15 October 9, 2004 Here's an article about the restoration of the Star Wars films for the recent DVD release. 600 G5 PowerMacs and a 378 Terabyte data array were used. What comes after a terabyte?-- Murray "No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets." - Edward Abbey Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
PhreeZone 20 #16 October 9, 2004 The next unit is petabyte, then exabyte, zettabyte and yottabyte.Yesterday is history And tomorrow is a mystery Parachutemanuals.com Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mattjw916 2 #17 October 9, 2004 We have some multi-petabyte StorageTek arrays at one of the sites I support... talk about big bucks!NSCR-2376, SCR-15080 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
