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Got me thinking about how much storage Internet Archive uses. The answer is: Total used storage: 50 PetaBytes -=--=--=-=-=-=-=- https://archive.org/web/petab
by ElijahLynn 7y ago
Got me thinking about how much storage Internet Archive uses. The answer is:
Total used storage: 50 PetaBytes
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https://archive.org/web/petabox.php https://archive.org/web/petabox.php
A few highlights from the Petabox storage system:
Density: 1.4 PetaBytes / rack
Power consumption: 3 KW / PetaByte
No Air Conditioning, instead use excess heat to help heat the building.
Raw Numbers as of August 2014:
4 data centers, 550 nodes, 20,000 spinning disks
Wayback Machine: 9.6 PetaBytes
Books/Music/Video Collections: 9.8 PetaBytes
Unique data: 18.5 PetaBytes
Total used storage: 50 PetaBytes
- ElijahLynn 7y agoAnd that got me thinking to how much 50 petabytes would cost... From https://www.backblaze.com/blog/petabytes-on-a-budget-10-years-and-counting/ https://www.backblaze.com/blog/petabytes-on-a-budget-10-year... on September 24, 2019. ----------------------------------------------------- Storage Pod 1.0 allowed us to store one petabyte of data for about $81,000. Today we’ve lowered that to about $35,000 with Storage Pod 6.0. ----------------------------------------------------- Obviously they paid more in storage in the past than today and it is a different solution but if you were to buy 50 PetaBytes today in one of Backblaze's Storage Pod 6.0s it would be $1,750,000. And there is ongoing maintenance & costs of drive failures. I feel the need to donate to Internet Archive soon, as I have greatly benefited from it in the past and am sure to in the future too!
- db48x 7y agoIf you poke around you can find some more recent stats: https://catalogd.archive.org/report/space.php https://catalogd.archive.org/report/space.php That yearly graph is pretty nice :)
- ElijahLynn 7y agoNice, thanks for that!