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Poster: | Javik | Date: | Jul 10, 2009 10:33pm |
Forum: | petabox | Subject: | I assume this forum is now obsolete |
We've gone from a mere 300 gigs of storage, up to, what? 2 TB in a 3.5 inch drive? Meanwhile pricing has crashed downward to what seem to be ridiculous depths.
It was only a few short years ago that I paid $350 for a 320 gig drive, then the largest drive available.
At this time NewEgg tells me that a 750 gig drive can be had for only $70, while a 1500 gig drive costs a mere $129.
This means my formerly ultra-expensive 320 gig drive is now worth about $25 or less, and the cost for the Archive to build a petabyte of storage has gone down by a factor of about twelve in only 3 years.
And what's more, we still have a ways to go before perpendicular recording runs out of gas. It seems feasible for a 5 TB drive to eventually exist, in only a few more years. If big half-height 5.25" drives were still being made, we'd already be at 10 TB per drive or so.
It appears our past discussions of multi-drive SATA arrays and SAS extenders is a joke at this point, not really worth bothering with due to the utter cheapness of the storage technology.
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Will the last person in this forum please turn the lights out?
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Poster: | Coderjo | Date: | Jul 15, 2009 4:17am |
Forum: | petabox | Subject: | Re: I assume this forum is now obsolete |
However, I suspect that the Internet Archive has abandoned the Petabox design in favor of Sun's donated datacenter-in-a-box. I'm sure they're likely still using existing hardware for a while yet, though.
(see:
http://www.archive.org/iathreads/post-view.php?id=243665
http://www.archive.org/iathreads/post-view.php?id=238517
)
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Poster: | jack liu | Date: | Nov 24, 2009 1:49am |
Forum: | petabox | Subject: | Re: I assume this forum is now obsolete |
not exactly! this site http://www.greenyeastinfection.com is a little site ,but it just uses MAID! just because they have so much money :)
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Poster: | tracey pooh | Date: | Oct 16, 2009 8:57pm |
Forum: | petabox | Subject: | Re: I assume this forum is now obsolete |
the majority of our data (the items we have /details/ pages for)
are still on this petabox set of red boxes.
we've morphed the motherboard over the years, and upp-ed the size of
each disk (up to 2TB each now), but overall the schtick is the same.
our wayback data has moved entirely to our new sun "datacenter in a box".
we are working on some new petabox designs for our /details/ page data/items but that is still in process...
--tracey, archive staff