On Wed, 7 Jul 2004, Steve Schear wrote:
> Perhaps, but at a Bay Area meeting a few years back held to discuss
> NSA/SIGINT, I think it was held on the Stanford campus, a developer
> disclosed that an American contractor manufacturer had won a contract to
> install 250,000 high-capacity disk drives at one of these agenicies.
>
> stveve
Lets look at that for a second.
"A few years ago". Lets call it two years ago. That would make the
average hi-cap drive around 30gb. We'll have to assume they want these to
be fault-tolerant and with host stanbys, since this *is* the standard
implementation, so:
250,000 drives
divie by 5 to get RAID groups = 50K groups of 90gb each, or
~4.6 petabytes for this one order.
4.6pb may be a lot, but it wouldn't hold much of the worlds traffic -
there's a hell of a lot of filtering going on.
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