Ok, a US military computer place is about to have 600 TERABYTES of storage space! OMG!

[AndrewR]

Granted, I've never worked for an IT place or anything, but I was blown away when I heard that in a briefing today. 600 TERABYTES!?! That's unreal.

Of course, the same place filled up one terabyte in a month recently so I guess they use it.

 

[Kalvin00]

:shrug;

 

[Oil]

600 Terabytes seems kind of low for a "US military computer place" IMO. Seems high to us, but they probably back up all their data many, many times

 

[jpeyton]

Weak.

 

[Dumac]

We are not impressed!

 

[JujuFish]

I wonder how much space that takes up.

 

[Baked]

I have more porn than that.

 

[AndrewR]

Originally posted by: Dumac
We are not impressed!

Like I said, it's a lot of room to me. I haven't even filled my 160GB here!

 

[AndrewR]

Originally posted by: JujuFish
I wonder how much space that takes up.

I was wondering that, too. Do they just buy 1200 500GB drives in a large array (it's actually 2x300TB).

 

[n7]

Heh...i have over 2 TB myself.

I guess 600 TB doesn't really seem like that much more...

 

[AndrewR]

Originally posted by: OSx86
600 Terabytes seems kind of low for a "US military computer place" IMO. Seems high to us, but they probably back up all their data many, many times

Well, it's only one office within a much larger complex. I honestly don't know if I can say which office, which is why I'm being so vague.

 

[RallyMaster]

k

 

[Dumac]

Originally posted by: AndrewR

Originally posted by: Dumac
We are not impressed!

Like I said, it's a lot of room to me. I haven't even filled my 160GB here!

It's actually a lot for me too I still have 80G out of 200G on my comp.

 

[AndrewR]

Originally posted by: n7
Heh...i have over 2 TB myself.

I guess 600 TB doesn't really seem like that much more...

What do you do with it??

Oh, wait, porn -- sorry.

 

[Oil]

Originally posted by: AndrewR

Originally posted by: OSx86
600 Terabytes seems kind of low for a "US military computer place" IMO. Seems high to us, but they probably back up all their data many, many times

Well, it's only one office within a much larger complex. I honestly don't know if I can say which office, which is why I'm being so vague.

ZOMG AREA51

 

[Random Variable]

Are we talking about a supercomputer? If we are, then 600 TB really isn't that much.

 

[AndrewR]

Originally posted by: Dumac

Originally posted by: AndrewR

Originally posted by: Dumac
We are not impressed!

Like I said, it's a lot of room to me. I haven't even filled my 160GB here!

It's actually a lot for me too I still have 80G out of 200G on my comp.

I just figured out the other day that I have 1/2 terabyte in the house split between three computers, but I probably have about 150 GB of data right now, if that much. I'm thinking of getting a 320GB Seagate, too.

There is method to the madness -- I'm digitizing my CD collection using a lossless method so it'll take nearly 150GB of space when done (hardly started so far). Then my main computer has old 80GB drives so I want to replace those with the bigger, faster one.

Still, 600 TB?!?

 

[her209]

Its probably so they can use it to track their own citizens. Think about.

600 TB / 300 Million = 2TB per millon people.

* shifty eyes *

 

[AndrewR]

Originally posted by: Random Variable
Are we talking about a supercomputer? If we are, then 600 TB really isn't that much.

No, just data storage. I have no idea what they use to process it, but I don't think it's a supercomputer of any sort.

 

[AndrewR]

Originally posted by: her209
Its probably so they can use it to track their own citizens. Think about.

600 TB / 300 Million = 2TB per millon people.

* shifty eyes *

They are looking up your file now...did you hear a knock?

 

[mugs]

Dam that's a lot of porn!

And her209, check your math.

 

[chuckywang]

Originally posted by: her209
Its probably so they can use it to track their own citizens. Think about.

600 TB / 300 Million = 2TB per millon people.

* shifty eyes *

you're lucky you edited that in time.

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

It's not that much. My 6 hard drives add up to beyond 1.2 TB.

My friend got a shipment of 20 x 320gb WD drives. That's getting there already in storage =)

 

[AndrewR]

Does enterprise storage use different hard drives, or are they just large arrays of the stuff we mere mortals use?

 

[her209]

Originally posted by: chuckywang

Originally posted by: her209
Its probably so they can use it to track their own citizens. Think about.

600 TB / 300 Million = 2TB per millon people.

* shifty eyes *

you're lucky you edited that in time.

:laugh: