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Obviously, Ms. Susman's circa-1998 home computer would in no way be able to replicate the level of storage provided by the Sun server cluster and its 4.5 TB dis

by Legion 14y ago

Obviously, Ms. Susman's circa-1998 home computer would in no way be able to replicate the level of storage provided by the Sun server cluster and its 4.5 TB disk array (http://www.hoise.com/primeur/99/articles/monthly/AE-PR-09-99-53.html http://www.hoise.com/primeur/99/articles/monthly/AE-PR-09-99...). What was deleted, per Loren Carpenter on Quora, was, "in effect the database(s) containing the master copies of characters, sets, animation, etc. The frames were to be computed from that. A few hundred MB, if I remember." (http://www.quora.com/Pixar-Animation-Studios/Did-Pixar-accidentally-delete-Toy-Story-2-during-production/answer/Loren-Carpenter http://www.quora.com/Pixar-Animation-Studios/Did-Pixar-accid...) A little more detail than provided in the video, where they just called it, "the film", as if the movie's entirety of data were both deleted and duplicated on that home PC.

dclowd9901 14y ago
Thank you for explaining this. It was literally the first thing that I was wondering.
orenjacob 14y ago
It is worth noting that Galyn's home machine, and the one that I drove over to get with her and return to Pixar as depicted in the video in question, was in fact an SGI. Not your average "home computer" by any stretch. Although you are correct, there was nowhere near 4.5 terabyte of drive space in that Indigo II or Octane (I forget what she had in her house specifically, although I can ask her if people really want to know). The sum of all the source files (models, animation, shaders, lighting, sets, etc..) was probably in the hundreds-of-megabytes range at that point in time as Loren pointed out in his comments on Quora. I've also added a lot more details to that Quora thread too (http://www.quora.com/Pixar-Animation-Studios/Did-Pixar-accidentally-delete-Toy-Story-2-during-production/answer/Oren-Jacob http://www.quora.com/Pixar-Animation-Studios/Did-Pixar-accid...) if folks want to read more about the whole thing, although it was 14 years ago so my memory is a little foggy on some of the details at this point in time.
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diminish 14y ago
Now it is time for me to verify my both home computer and business laptop backups.

by Legion 14y ago

dclowd9901 14y ago

Thank you for explaining this. It was literally the first thing that I was wondering.

orenjacob 14y ago

It is worth noting that Galyn's home machine, and the one that I drove over to get with her and return to Pixar as depicted in the video in question, was in fact an SGI. Not your average "home computer" by any stretch. Although you are correct, there was nowhere near 4.5 terabyte of drive space in that Indigo II or Octane (I forget what she had in her house specifically, although I can ask her if people really want to know). The sum of all the source files (models, animation, shaders, lighting, sets, etc..) was probably in the hundreds-of-megabytes range at that point in time as Loren pointed out in his comments on Quora. I've also added a lot more details to that Quora thread too (http://www.quora.com/Pixar-Animation-Studios/Did-Pixar-accidentally-delete-Toy-Story-2-during-production/answer/Oren-Jacob http://www.quora.com/Pixar-Animation-Studios/Did-Pixar-accid...) if folks want to read more about the whole thing, although it was 14 years ago so my memory is a little foggy on some of the details at this point in time.

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diminish 14y ago

Now it is time for me to verify my both home computer and business laptop backups.