Tuesday, May 11, 2004

Petabox: One Million Gigabytes
Mine's Bigger Dept: The Internet Archive has a machine called the Petabox which can handle a petabyte or one million gigabytes.

Here are some highlights:

* Low power-- 6kWatts per rack, and 60kWatts for the whole system
* High density-- 100 Terabytes per rack
* Local computing to process the data-- 800 low-end PC's
* Multi-OS possible, Llinux standard
* Colocation friendly-- requires our own rack to get 100TB/rack, or 50TB in a standard rack
* Shipping container friendly-- Able to be run in a 20' by 8' by 8' shipping container
* Easy Maintainance-- one system administrator per petabyte
* Software to automate mirroring with itself
* Inexpensive design
* Inexpensive storage


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