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with 2PB of storage, what resolution could you store of a full-frontal pic of the average woman? what feature size could you get down to?
I’m trying to see her taste buds
I found this video on reddit https://redlib.tux.pizza/r/DataHoarder/comments/xzyhwz/ever_wondered_what_2_peta_bytes_looks_like/ op says it is 2 pb.
Nice, good detective work. Most of my trash memes come from reddit 2 years ago
Yes my mom is an incomprehensible god; how did you know? :3
Plot twist: they’re 256MB drives from 2002 and total… 61.44GB. Still impressive, nvm. If they were the largest available currently (36TB) they’d total 8.64PB
that array is a POS. Changing failed drives in that would be a major pain in the ass… and the way it doesn’t disapate heat, those drives probably failed pretty regularly.
JBODS like those are actually pretty common in data centers though and are popular with cold storage configs that don’t keep drives spun up unless needed.
For the cooling, they usually use the pressure gradient between what’re called cold and hot aisles to force air through the server racks. The pressure also tends to be strong enough that passive cooling can be used and any fans on the hardware would be more used to just direct the airflow.
If you’re paying per U of rack space for colocation then maximizing the storage density is going to be a bigger priority than ease of maintenance, especially since there should be multiple layers of redundancy involved here.
you still have to replace failed drives, this design is poor.
I work in a datacenter that has many drive arrays, my main storage space direct array has 900TB with redundancy. I have been pulling old arrays out and even some of the older ones are better then this if they have front loading drives cages.
there is no airflow gaps in that thing… I bet the heat it generates is massive
The interface is SATA, not EIDE or SCSI, so I’m going to guess 2TB minimum but I’d bet they are more than likely 8TB drives.
I guessed they were SATA. If that is the case, here is one such 36TB SATA HDD. Apparently Seagate make these in SAS models as well
Probably SAS but yeah
You’re right - I found the source. Turns out they’re 8TB SAS, for a total of 1.92PB.
looks like SAS to me
This is a helluva range, do any wizards have a best guess at how much total disk space we’re looking at here?
Can’t make out the size of the drives but they’re HDD and there’s 240 of them.
Multiply that by what size HDD’s are available in the year you think this video was taken. Money is on 1 or 2 tb? Those are bulky as fuck though so they could be as little as 100 something GB, but then I think we’d be looking at a lot more piss-yellow plastic
she’s so pretty one single drive couldn’t possibly hold all her beauty 🧡
I, too, enjoy large resolution images of large women
Hmm. The photo must have been an ultra-compressed jpeg then.
Must have been taken by the James Webb telescope.
