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To: cymbeline
Wasn’t the article about vast amounts of storage, not computing power?

While large, it does not seem out of reach for us.

My current environment thinks nothing of GB storage, TB is the norm, and we have a few PB filesystems.

21 posted on 07/26/2022 5:54:58 AM PDT by ShadowAce (Linux - The Ultimate Windows Service Pack )
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To: ShadowAce

“TB is the norm, and we have a few PB filesystems.”

For what it’s worth, the largest available hard disk is 20 TB and the largest solid state storage medium is 16 TB.

A petabyte is 1000 TB which would be 50 20 TB drives.

I’ve wondered how many bits can be put on a square inch of hard drive, and also per square inch of chip.

No telling how many square feet of chips we have on this earth now.


23 posted on 07/26/2022 6:41:54 AM PDT by cymbeline
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