How much data would a hard drive this size be able to hold, if

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Multiplying the surface area of 50 24" platters by the figure cited in this wikipedia article of 1.34/Tbit/sq in. I got a figure of 15.2 PB, or 15155 TB.

>>61668242
5MB

>>61668337
Yeah, I saw this coming..

>>61668316
Thanks dude

Damn that's a lot of data. I'm guessing a hard drive that big probably would have too many moving parts/too high of a failure rate for practical usage, and it probably would be slow too.

>>61668316
Makes sense, since thats roughly the kind of storage you can stuff into a 42U rack.

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>>61668316
Meh.
Today's approach is better.
Throw more spindles with redundancy if shit breaks at those scales.

Not worth making something this fucking huge if it starts flipping bits.

>>61668584
https://aws.amazon.com/snowmobile/
amazon will ship a 45' shipping container that has 100PB of storage and fiber connectivity to securely/quickly transfer large amounts of data to their servers