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> It's not going to be able to hold more than an average size datacenter, and there are a lot of data centers out there. T Why not? Most data centers aren't de
by jonknee 13y ago
> It's not going to be able to hold more than an average size datacenter, and there are a lot of data centers out there. T
Why not? Most data centers aren't designed to store a bunch of stuff, but instead are designed to serve a lot of users. Facebook has at least one storage forward data center and it packs an exabyte into a 60k sqft footprint:
http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2013/01/18/facebook-builds-new-data-centers-for-cold-storage/ http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2013/01/18/faceb...;
I don't think the NSA has zettabytes at hand, but you can store a massive amount of stuff in 100k square feet.
- magicalist 13y agoI was replying to the fantastical claim that the datacenter "was designed to host more storage than existed on the entire planet at the time". Of course 100,000 square feet is a medium sized data center and can hold quite a bit of data. If you're happy to go even slower, you could fit even more in with a tape archive that big. You're still so very very far away from a data center sucking up all human-produced data (even accounting for duplication) and storing it for later retrieval and analysis as many here apparently believe. So yes, the NSA does have a new datacenter. But no, it's not the new Area 51 nor is it host to magic computers.