Storing a PetaByte

Joshlad · 12 Dec 2012 at 17:42

How do you store a petabyte, is it just 512 2TB hard drives all bunged together? also, how do you connect 512 hard drives... i think my motherboard takes 6 :cool:

Undesirable · 12 Dec 2012 at 22:41

You take someone named Peter who has been nipped by a dog or insect recently and put him in a cupboard.

rpstewart · 13 Dec 2012 at 19:34

Joshlad said:
How do you store a petabyte, is it just 512 2TB hard drives all bunged together? also, how do you connect 512 hard drives... i think my motherboard takes 6

Anyone with a petabyte of storage is going to have it as part of a SAN (storage area network) rather than individual disks attached to a machine.

Most SANs will have the back end storage hidden behind multiple caching layers, frequently a bank of SSDs and then a hunk of RAM on the SAN controller. The disks themselves will be smaller than 2TB, probably only 300-600Gb, and arranged in a series of RAID arrays which themselves are carved up to create the LUNs which are presented to the end user machines.

PhillyDee · 13 Dec 2012 at 20:48

Question is, what are you downloading?

Or why do you want to know . . . .

KelDG · 13 Dec 2012 at 21:18

FYI, you can't File>Save Google to download the internet you know.