Computer with Largest Hard Disk Space

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There was a thread posted on here with the top supercomputers, and I was wondering if there was a list with the computers that had the largest amount of hard disk space?
 
I'm assuming it will be a government PC with a few PB of memory, or alternativly it may be a google computer thinking about it.
 
what I want to know is... you know when CERN & Caltech broke the network speed record with some ridiculously huge transfer speed - Where did all the data come from, because no hard drive I know of has read/write speeds anywhere near the figure I heard they got.
 
Rebelius said:
what I want to know is... you know when CERN & Caltech broke the network speed record with some ridiculously huge transfer speed - Where did all the data come from, because no hard drive I know of has read/write speeds anywhere near the figure I heard they got.
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Was probably real time data. Or it was synthetic data generated just to show off the speeds.
 
Rebelius said:
what I want to know is... you know when CERN & Caltech broke the network speed record with some ridiculously huge transfer speed - Where did all the data come from, because no hard drive I know of has read/write speeds anywhere near the figure I heard they got.
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What speeds did they reach?
 
Sirrel Squirrel said:
At one stage the company I work for was getting through 200TB a day! Currently they use about 80TB a day. God knows how much all that costs :eek:
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That's impossible. You're talking about a daily cost of millions and floorspace the size of Manchester!

Are you taking into account tape backups or something?
 
Vanilla said:
That's impossible. You're talking about a daily cost of millions and floorspace the size of Manchester!

Are you taking into account tape backups or something?
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Not at all impossible! Render farms can chuck out that sort of data per day.

MIT's new supercomputer has something like 1.5PB of storage and 100TB of RAM :)
 
DRZ said:
Not at all impossible! Render farms can chuck out that sort of data per day.

MIT's new supercomputer has something like 1.5PB of storage and 100TB of RAM :)
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Sorry, I was assuming new, stored data!

For things like rendering where you can overwrite some data after chucking it to tape it would be fine - but storing all that....not even the biggest companies would for more than a week.
 
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Vanilla said:
That's impossible. You're talking about a daily cost of millions and floorspace the size of Manchester!

Are you taking into account tape backups or something?
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It's a media company, we encoded the entire back catalogue of Sony Pictures at 50mbps, which is about 1gb a minute. Everything went onto new drives in the states, the hard drive management was all computerised and new drives were added automatically as far as I know.
 
Sirrel Squirrel said:
It's a media company, we encoded the entire back catalogue of Sony Pictures at 50mbps, which is about 1gb a minute.
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I know now :)

I take it you'd shove it all to tape very shortly after?
 
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