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"designed to be a primary storage resource capable of storing data on the scale of yottabytes" That's more than 1000x the total annual internet traffic. With
by jedbrown 13y ago
"designed to be a primary storage resource capable of storing data on the scale of yottabytes"
That's more than 1000x the total annual internet traffic. With a budget of a few billion USD, a yottabyte is several orders of magnitude beyond current market rates.
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- johansch 13y agoYes, but you can still get a lot of storage for that kind of money. 2 billion USD in hard drives = 10 million 4 TB drives = 40 Exabytes = 6 GB per person in the world
- phy6 13y agoMight as well just manufacture your own hard drives if you want to play this game. Optimized for Accumulo, with built in hardware encryption.
- lucb1e 13y agoIt would be highly ironic if they encrypt data there.
- dakrisht 13y agoWhat makes you guys think they're paying the same price we are for hard drives?? These datacenters are so sophisticated, they are generations beyond the commercial facilities of today. You can imagine the new facility being built will be the cutting-edge, processors and systems years away from commercial use.
- johansch 13y agoRevenue figures for 2012; draw your own conclusions on the feasibility of competing with commodity hardware, even for $2B deployments: Intel: $54B Seagate: $15B WD: $12B
- dzaman 13y agoThey don't need to have all of the hardware for v1.