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

Here's a good indication

29 posted on 07/27/2022 8:25:05 AM PDT by ShadowAce (Linux - The Ultimate Windows Service Pack )
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