Computer with Largest Hard Disk Space

Vanilla · 8 May 2007 at 20:05

Sirrel Squirrel said:
Nope it all stayed on the drives, all stored in the states

For how long? :eek:

Sirrel Squirrel · 8 May 2007 at 20:07

Forever I think, it cost Sony millions.

The project is over now though but we still encode about 80tb a day for various television networks, a new program would come in on tape, it'd be encoded and it can then be played out without tapes.

Angus-Higgins · 8 May 2007 at 20:23

Rebelius said:
Where did all the data come from,

Probably some big torrent file.

Maybe it was loads of high-definition films.

Angus Higgins

Pinter75 · 9 May 2007 at 14:08

Sirrel Squirrel said:
Forever I think, it cost Sony millions.

The project is over now though but we still encode about 80tb a day for various television networks, a new program would come in on tape, it'd be encoded and it can then be played out without tapes.

Probably gearing up content for video on demand services.

Sirrel Squirrel · 9 May 2007 at 14:11

Pinter75 said:
Probably gearing up content for video on demand services.

Fergie · 9 May 2007 at 14:16

1 PB Storage array will set you back $4 million. Ultimate willy waving if you have the cash!

The first commercially-available Petabyte Storage Array was launched by the EMC Corporation in January 2006, with an approximate cost of USD 4 million

Samtheman1k · 9 May 2007 at 14:18

ignore

Pinter75 · 9 May 2007 at 14:20

Fergie said:
1 PB Storage array will set you back $4 million. Ultimate willy waving if you have the cash!

One must speculate to accumulate.

The cost of setting up data storage for VOD services for companies is nothing compared to the revenue they generate from subs!

Tomsk · 9 May 2007 at 14:23

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,....

I'm surprised nobody's said the obvious.
GD standards must be rising.

Sirrel Squirrel · 9 May 2007 at 14:23

It's not just for VOD, it's also for transmission as a tapeless transmission environment runs a lot smoother where everything is file based, also means fewer people are needed to run it.

Pinter75 · 9 May 2007 at 14:28

Sirrel Squirrel said:
It's not just for VOD, it's also for transmission as a tapeless transmission environment runs a lot smoother where everything is file based, also means fewer people are needed to run it.

So Sky don't have a guy at 4am changing the tapes over at the right moment ;-)

Maybe they did in analogue times.

Sirrel Squirrel · 9 May 2007 at 14:41

Not sure if Sky have gone tapeless, they probably have, I know Disney, Flextech and Discovery have all gone tapeless, company I work for built their transmission suites and contract us to run them, no idea how much it all costs.

Rotty · 9 May 2007 at 14:57

We have a new storage unit being released soon which will be in the region of 1 Petabyte with sequential transfer rates of 24GB/s and a Terabyte of cache

Amp34 · 9 May 2007 at 15:15

Tomsk said:
I'm surprised nobody's said the obvious.
GD standards must be rising.

You had a very dirty giggle from me when I worked out what you meant...

Darg · 9 May 2007 at 16:00

Fergie said:
1 PB Storage array will set you back $4 million. Ultimate willy waving if you have the cash!

Nonsense:

£260,651.82 incl. VAT.

Talk about supporting OCUK... would make a nice rendering farm

And yes I know there are server options for this kind of thing but I was testing how much it would cost to buy a 1PB farm from OCUK

Rebelius · 9 May 2007 at 18:26

Darg said:
Nonsense:

http://img441.imageshack.us/img441/3029/1pbfa3.png

£260,651.82 incl. VAT.

Talk about supporting OCUK... would make a nice rendering farm

And yes I know there are server options for this kind of thing but I was testing how much it would cost to buy a 1PB farm from OCUK

And how much per day in Storage Space and Electricity? :eek:

at my electricity prices, and guessing 300W avg, it'd be about £100 a day in electricity.

you only have 600 SATA slots.

fini · 9 May 2007 at 18:41

I wonder if you could get spie to personally deliver an order of such magnitude?

malfunkshun · 9 May 2007 at 18:48

If I spent 260k on components I would expect him to make multiple trips in the Ferrari to deliver it in person :cool:

NathP · 9 May 2007 at 18:54

hehe wonder what the biggest order OcUK have ever done and how much

Wyrdo · 9 May 2007 at 19:18

Rotty said:
We have a new storage unit being released soon which will be in the region of 1 Petabyte with sequential transfer rates of 24GB/s and a Terabyte of cache

I've always wondered, are you an engineer for EMC Rotty?