Sunday, 12. September 2004
Topic: COMPUTER - on September 12, 2004 at 12:06:00 AM CEST
Hitachi SANRISE 32 Petabyte Array
Using Hitachi's "world's first" virtual disk array system, this device can manage up to 32PB (Petabytes) of external storage. Those of you not in the know about storage will now learn that a petabyte is approximately 10^15 (one quadrillion) bytes, and is quite step up from the terabytes following gigabytes. Got all that? To put it in consumer-ese, 32PB can hold nearly 7 billion MP3s (assuming 5MB per). This would be about 49 million movies, if they are encoded to 700 megabytes. In comparison, imdb.com currently lists a mere 411,447 titles.
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