Worlds largest capacity hard drive

P_A_N_I_C · 26 Feb 2008 at 23:07

probably fit every pr0n0 ever made on that

Diggsy · 26 Feb 2008 at 23:11

Good god! I wouldn't fancy waiting for that to defrag

Marky · 26 Feb 2008 at 23:15

Whoa that's almost 1400TB which mean's it's 140'000GB of free space! :O

supernova9 · 26 Feb 2008 at 23:18

Marky said:
Whoa that's almost 1400TB which mean's it's 140'000GB of free space! :O

Think you'll find that's actually 14,000TB (1PB = 1,000TB) so actually 1.4 million GB.

Also not a hard-drive, something like a SAN array probably.

/rain on parade

Marky · 26 Feb 2008 at 23:23

supernova9 said:
Think you'll find that's actually 14,000TB (1PB = 1,000TB) so actually 1.4 million GB.

Also not a hard-drive, something like a SAN array probably.

/rain on parade

I was 99.9% sure that when I posted that... someone like you would come to correct me

adbp1 · 27 Feb 2008 at 07:48

i was jsut reading another post about if less platters means less power.. i wonder how much elec this use ???

Serial45 · 27 Feb 2008 at 11:57

that's bloody insane, that must be an entire room of hard drive racks linked, surely it can't be one drive?

P_A_N_I_C · 27 Feb 2008 at 15:53

yes was one hard drive

Big.Wayne · 27 Feb 2008 at 15:55

How big is that drive then, those numbers make no sense to me!

PhillyDee · 27 Feb 2008 at 16:07

supernova9 said:
Think you'll find that's actually 14,000TB (1PB = 1,000TB) so actually 1.4 million GB.

Also not a hard-drive, something like a SAN array probably.

/rain on parade

That big.

Big.Wayne · 27 Feb 2008 at 16:18

PhillyDee said:
That big.

What's 14.20PB?

Rebelius · 27 Feb 2008 at 16:43

Big.Wayne said:
What's 14.20PB?

14 000TB
14 000 000GB
14 000 000 000MB
14 000 000 000 000KB
14 000 000 000 000 000B
112 000 000 000 000 000bits <- that many 1s and 0s.

tang0 · 27 Feb 2008 at 19:11

14 petabytes!?!? wtf

milkinc13 · 27 Feb 2008 at 19:55

that's HUGE!!!

Lightnix · 27 Feb 2008 at 20:08

Pff. No exabyte drives yet? :cool:

In all honesty, I'm awe struck, that's like mainframe amounts of storage.

GingerNinja1989 · 27 Feb 2008 at 20:13

There's no way that's a single drive!!! Must me an array of some kind. Either way, I want one...

Steves_pc · 27 Feb 2008 at 21:50

Holy cow, if thats not a glitch causing that size report and it really is one disc then either the drives a few feet thick or the platters are like lp's

How long before we see 5Tb drives on TWO ?

supernova9 · 27 Feb 2008 at 23:16

There is no single physical drive that holds that much storage. It just doesn't exist.

It must be a disk array of some kind. Though just think how many MP3s that would hold!

yantorsen · 27 Feb 2008 at 23:37

what's PB stand for?

P_A_N_I_C · 27 Feb 2008 at 23:47

Steves_pc said:
Holy cow, if thats not a glitch causing that size report

winner!

sorry to dissapoint

it's a very unhappy 10gb hdd.