NSA to store yottabytes of surveillance data in Utah megarepository

Crunchgear ^ | November 1. 2009 | by Devin Coldewey

[Billthedrill]

A great deal of data, that is. The old IT axiom “garbage in, garbage out” modified must be. All “garbage in” now it is.

[rmlew]

What OS can access that much information?
Even assuming 2TB hard drives, that is a lot of RAID arrays. The electric and cooling requirements will be enormous.

[Darksheare]

No, but I hear tell that Rage Boy is infesting sites out there.

[Darksheare]

“Warp Core Breach in two minutes!”

[OneWingedShark]

>While RAM storage uses 1024 (2^10) as its multiplier, disk storage has always used 1000 (10^3).

Wrong[; you have an ALWAYS qualifier there]. The 5.25 & 3.5 inch floppy’s MBs ARE/WERE measured in 1024 units of 1024-byte kilo-bytes.
See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floppy_disk

Further proof of this can be seen in the 512-byte boot-sector sizes on not only these media, but on hard-drives as well.

As is known in logic always (and for-all) need show only one instance where the claim does not hold in order to prove the entire claim untrue.

[OneWingedShark]

>While RAM storage uses 1024 (2^10) as its multiplier, disk storage has always used 1000 (10^3).

Wrong[; you have an ALWAYS qualifier there]. The 5.25 & 3.5 inch floppy’s MBs ARE/WERE measured in 1024 units of 1024-byte kilo-bytes.
See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floppy_disk

Further proof of this can be seen in the 512-byte boot-sector sizes on not only these media, but on hard-drives as well.

As is known in logic always (and for-all) need show only one instance where the claim does not hold in order to prove the entire claim untrue.

[MikefromOhio]

We just grew our capacity to something north of 800 Petabytes (this is both spinning disk AND tape storage combined)....

I can’t imagine what a Yottabyte looks like right now. We aren’t even at a Exabyte yet ;)

[MikefromOhio]

I am sure CHINA will have direct access.

If this is anything like what I think it is, the only way the chinese will have access to it is if they break into the mountain.

[Still Thinking]

Kick your ass I will.

[Still Thinking]

Bowman: “My God, It’s full of Lolcats!”

I can has lotz n lotz uv storage?

[HereInTheHeartland]

Something tells me they won’t be using 5 1/2 inch floppy disks for storage.

[Still Thinking]

Something tells me they won’t be using 5 1/2 inch floppy disks for storage.

I'm thinking they'll need 8" floppies for size. So, like a trillion Trash-80's.

[Darksheare]

“I’m in yer srvr nommin yer filz.”