Link Instutie researchers took ordinary SSD solid state disk drives and packed them in briefcase sized modules. Each module has 500 SSDs, and has a 30,000 terabyte capacity. Forty of the modules are packed into two modified external fuel tank on the F/A-18E aircraft, for a total of 1,200,000 terabytes.
You can actually get a Petabyte of storage in 1U of rack space these days: https://www.pcper.com/news/Storage/FMS-2017-Intels-EDSFF-Ruler-SSD-Form-Factor-Details-Emerge-1-Petabyte-1U-Chassis -andyf _______________________________________________ Link mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
