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So for about $12,000 in bandwidth fees, $17,000 in 4TB SATA drives, and say another $15,000 on 10 2U hosts, you could have a slightly stinky copy of the Interne

So for about $12,000 in bandwidth fees, $17,000 in 4TB SATA drives, and say another $15,000 on 10 2U hosts, you could have a slightly stinky copy of the Internet that would fit in a half-height rack. That's freaking awesome.

deletes 14y ago
Even more interesting is, will in the future that space that represents the entire internet ( the rack ) grow in size or will disk storage improve faster than the growth of internet when finally you will be able to fit internet on a small hand held disk.
- adventured 14y ago
  Media alone will vastly outrun micro storage capabilities over any relevant length of time we can project (5, 10, 20 years). It might be an interesting thought experiment regarding text (and probably only a fraction of a fraction of that due to social media). YouTube alone will guarantee you could never store the Internet on a small hand held disk. They're adding 72+ hours of video to the service every minute. And ten years from now, it'll all be HD+ content, and they'll probably be adding 500 hours per minute or something similarly crazy. I think Wikipedia is around 42gb right now, uncompressed (just the content pages). I don't think that includes the images. So right now we're just to the point where you can store a text Wikipedia on your smart phone with a $30 or $40 sd card. I'd guess in eight to ten years we'll have 500gb to 1tb smart phone equivalents depending on how that all evolves. You might be able to store a dozen plus dual layer full blu ray discs on your smart phone in a decade. In other words, it's easy to say that we're not going to get anywhere near storing even a sliver of the Web / Internet on a small device in our lifetimes.
- 6d0debc071 14y ago
  I believe humanity's data was increasing by around 23% a year in 2007 when we were estimated to have around .3zb. Assuming that trend's holding steady with respect to the internet I'd expect us to massively outrun increases in storage.

deletes 14y ago

Even more interesting is, will in the future that space that represents the entire internet ( the rack ) grow in size or will disk storage improve faster than the growth of internet when finally you will be able to fit internet on a small hand held disk.

adventured 14y ago
Media alone will vastly outrun micro storage capabilities over any relevant length of time we can project (5, 10, 20 years). It might be an interesting thought experiment regarding text (and probably only a fraction of a fraction of that due to social media). YouTube alone will guarantee you could never store the Internet on a small hand held disk. They're adding 72+ hours of video to the service every minute. And ten years from now, it'll all be HD+ content, and they'll probably be adding 500 hours per minute or something similarly crazy. I think Wikipedia is around 42gb right now, uncompressed (just the content pages). I don't think that includes the images. So right now we're just to the point where you can store a text Wikipedia on your smart phone with a $30 or $40 sd card. I'd guess in eight to ten years we'll have 500gb to 1tb smart phone equivalents depending on how that all evolves. You might be able to store a dozen plus dual layer full blu ray discs on your smart phone in a decade. In other words, it's easy to say that we're not going to get anywhere near storing even a sliver of the Web / Internet on a small device in our lifetimes.
6d0debc071 14y ago
I believe humanity's data was increasing by around 23% a year in 2007 when we were estimated to have around .3zb. Assuming that trend's holding steady with respect to the internet I'd expect us to massively outrun increases in storage.