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To put it in context. A square mile has 27,878,400 square feet in it. The Empire State Building has 2,158,000 square feet of usable office space. But this also
by MichaelApproved 17y ago
To put it in context. A square mile has 27,878,400 square feet in it. The Empire State Building has 2,158,000 square feet of usable office space.
But this also assumes they're going to use HD as standard storage devices. They would probably be using a different technology. It's clearly not possible with current HD capacity.
They could also be building for the eventual capacity and not going to immediately support that much data. The comments on the article page makes this and other good points.
- jbellis 17y ago> They would probably be using a different technology. not even the NSA can get a yottabyte of some new technology manufactured without it being all over the news.
- MichaelApproved 17y agoThe data doesn't have to be actively online. Tape technology is one option to reduce the amount of hardware and space needed.
- bbgm 17y agoand that process is fairly routine at most national labs and supercomputing facilities. Not highly available, but not sure these data need to be.