On Thu, Sep 16, 2004 at 03:45:26PM -0400, David Schultz wrote.. > On Thu, Sep 16, 2004, Frank Knobbe wrote: > > On Thu, 2004-09-16 at 11:20, Bruce M Simpson wrote: > > > On Thu, Sep 16, 2004 at 11:12:16AM -0400, Kevin A. Pieckiel wrote: > > > > Where on earth would you find a disk system that can store 2^64 bytes of > > > > data or larger, anyway? > > > > > > You can bet that somebody, somewhere, needs this right now. And someone > > > will definitely need it in the next 5-10 years. > > > > Naahh... there is No Such Application for it. ;) > > Actually, there are a number of parties---banks, governments, > geneticists, and Internet search engines, for instance---who > never seem to have enough storage. > > I've seen lots of FUD and bad math on this thread, so let's do a > quick back-of-the-envelope calculation. Hitachi and other storage > vendors already ship systems with on the order of 1 petabyte > (2^50B) of capacity. That's 14 doublings away from 2^64. Storage
Actually, I have been in a discussion with a customer intrested in 11PB of storage. Typically you are looking at people storing audio & video archives and the like. Or the folks that run particle accelerators or biosciences. -- Wilko Bulte [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"