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

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Alex

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they prolly have so much 'useless' info backup up over and over again... imagine all the data they collect from espionage etc...
 
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CVSiN

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

I guess 600 TB doesn't really seem like that much more...
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What do you do with it?? :confused:

Oh, wait, porn -- sorry. ;)
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I have 1.5 TB as well for my media center PC..

and here at work even our Image Burn station has 4 TB in it...
Our servers are all within the 500-800 TB range..

this is nothing that special..
Oil Industry needs alot of storage.. the data can be HUGE from drilling and seismic data.
 
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Danman

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That's nothing. At my previous job with a government agency, I was working on several different storage projects. Our 800TB filled up already, we needed more space.

Definitely very cool stuff.
 
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AndrewR

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Originally posted by: gentobu
Originally posted by: AndrewR

Nope, not NSA.

Since you're "in the business" -- what would a large data center have in terms of capacity? I can't even fathom an example or a specific company.
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Is it for the Air Intelligence Agency? If it is I'm guessing the storage is for satellite imagery of some sort.
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I'm not going to give any information on who is using it, though you could probably figure out what general location it is by looking where I'm located. Beyond that, I'm not saying. ;)
 
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AndrewR

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Originally posted by: MichaelD
*shrug* It's semi-impressive. For Joe Average home user, a 120GB drive is huge and he'll never fill it up.

I built a HTPC for somone and it had 2TB of storage; the guy is still in the process of ripping his DVDs to it.

At work, we back up 1.8TB a day. Monthly backups are almost 6TB. 600TB is ok...but it's not "Whoa." Now, should be cross into the Petabyte realm, that'll be "Whoa!"
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Like I said, it's "Whoa" to me. Before this thread, I didn't even know what the next step from terabyte was. :D

I bet if I were able to find out the TOTAL data storage capacity at this facility, it would be in the "Whoa" realm, since is only one entity of one division within a large organization. Now that I think about it, that number is probably incredible. :Q
 
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who cares where you work or how much space they have? :roll: I work for a frigging document imaging company and we've recently filled 150TB of space just from 6 litigation projects, big deal.

and LOL @ "US military computer place".. sounds like a description my 3 year old niece would give, not someone who 'works there'
 
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thomsbrain

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i'd bet money the members of AT have significantly more combined storage than that. hell, i'm not even into hardware anymore, and i have more than a terabyte in my house just for the usual media and stuff. for the military to only have storage equal to 600 people in one place is not very impressive.
 
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homercles337

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Originally posted by: Random Variable
Are we talking about a supercomputer? If we are, then 600 TB really isn't that much.
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Even if we are talking about a cluster that is nothing.
 
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Sukhoi

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Cool, they're keeping a bunch of pics of the UFO (he's at WPAFB if nobody's figured that out yet)!
 
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bsobel

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The NAS here at home is 6, so I'm running at a residence 1% of that system. 600tb seems low...
 
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Originally posted by: AndrewR
I'm not going to give any information on who is using it, though you could probably figure out what general location it is by looking where I'm located. Beyond that, I'm not saying. ;)
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Shhhhhhh!! Some folks around here may work for the "DoD" and have TS/SPECAT/NOFORN clearances and report you to the security manager for treason. :D


Originally posted by: BrokenVisage
who cares where you work or how much space they have? :roll: I work for a frigging document imaging company and we've recently filled 150TB of space just from 6 litigation projects, big deal.

and LOL @ "US military computer place".. sounds like a description my 3 year old niece would give, not someone who 'works there'
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:laugh:
 
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AndrewR

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Originally posted by: BrokenVisage
who cares where you work or how much space they have? :roll: I work for a frigging document imaging company and we've recently filled 150TB of space just from 6 litigation projects, big deal.

and LOL @ "US military computer place".. sounds like a description my 3 year old niece would give, not someone who 'works there'
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And you're reading comprehension is about on the level of your 3 year old niece since I never said I worked there, and the reason I was vague about the description is because I am not revealing exactly what the entity is that houses said storage.

Oh, wait, you work for Kinko's so I guess I should use smaller words. :D
 
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AndrewR

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Originally posted by: SonnyDaze
Originally posted by: AndrewR
I'm not going to give any information on who is using it, though you could probably figure out what general location it is by looking where I'm located. Beyond that, I'm not saying. ;)
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Shhhhhhh!! Some folks around here may work for the "DoD" and have TS/SPECAT/NOFORN clearances and report you to the security manager for treason. :D


Originally posted by: BrokenVisage
who cares where you work or how much space they have? :roll: I work for a frigging document imaging company and we've recently filled 150TB of space just from 6 litigation projects, big deal.

and LOL @ "US military computer place".. sounds like a description my 3 year old niece would give, not someone who 'works there'
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:laugh:
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NOFORN isn't a clearance; it's a caveat. SPECAT isn't anything; it's a generic category. Plus, you use two "/" between TS and NOFORN so it's TS//NOFORN. ;)
 
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Eli

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I don't even want to know what they use all that space for.
 
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