I was watching a video on the web, that caused me to pause a think a bit. (It can happen)
The video was regarding the Large Hadron Collider being built in CERN.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/sciencenow/3410/02.html
At the 8:57 mark in the video, an engineer describes the data that will be collected is 40 million megabytes per second, in one year they will collect 10 times the amount of data that is on the entire internet!
Ok, lets do some math... feel free to check my numbers.
40 million mega-bytes = 40,000 GB = 40TB per second
(lets stop hear for a moment and pause... can you imagine the complexities of writing 40TB of data/sec to disk?)
At that rate, a fully loaded XP24000 would fill up in 18.625 seconds!! (yes I know external storage is available for the XP, but I think they need the 512GB cache).
continuing on.. there are 31,557,600secs in a 365.25days.
12,623,040,000 TB per year
= 1,232,718.75 Petabytes
= 1,203.82 Exabytes and for those who want to take it further
= 1.175 Zettabytes interesting to note the decimal in this (.175 =188million TB)
(let's not even talk RAID for the moment)
That means 16,943,677 XP24000's fully loaded from HP (I bet that would crank up HP's stock!)
The best number I can find, estimates the web storage around 281 Exabytes (Baseline April 2008)... so I would say it is close to 5 times the total storage of the internet.
Either way, this sounds like a great time to invest in storage... Seagate, Western Digital etc...
BTW, did I mention Google is planning on replacing hard-drives with SSD's to save on energy?
http://www.hardware.info/en-US/news/ymickpqWwpeacJY/Google_buys_Intel_SSDs/
-Craig
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