1.9 Petabytes - Expanding the Synology NAS
The Slow Mo Guys 2
Don't hear about things like this much. Petabyte. Huh. I can see how ten years of making ultra-high-speed videos could consume a large amount of storage space. I'm kind of wondering what he was using before, and how long it took him to load all of his old files onto his new server. A petabyte is a million gigabytes. At 2 gigabytes a second that would take 500,000 seconds. At 86,400 seconds a day that would take like a week. Given the way that doing anything with a computer involves a zillion times more time in preparation and setup than the actual operation, I suspect it probably took him at least a month.
Now I'm wondering how many of those files will actually get accessed before this server becomes obsolete and is replaced by a crystal the size of a sugar cube. I was going to say 'the size of a die' meaning a die like in dice, but that would be confusing, or would it?
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