A petabyte is 1000 terabytes. There are commercial hard drives that are over 30 tb. So 33 of these drives hold 1 pb. Times ten makes 330 hard drives to hold 10 pb. All of those drives together would take up just one third of a single full height server rack like this.
So not only wouldn’t it need a whole data center, in fact it wouldn’t even need a whole server room, and actually wouldn’t even need a whole server closet!
I calculated this all out only because I’m procrastinating😆
you’d need a data center just to hold that much information! it’s not like your using cloud storage for this, this is an expensive payload
With modern high capacity drives, it’s possible to have that storage in a single rack. If would probably be about $500,000 worth of drives though.
$242k AUD if using the bare minimum number of HP 14TB enterprise drives (cheapest I can currently find)
Throw in some redundancy and call it $250k AUD or $179k USD
A petabyte is 1000 terabytes. There are commercial hard drives that are over 30 tb. So 33 of these drives hold 1 pb. Times ten makes 330 hard drives to hold 10 pb. All of those drives together would take up just one third of a single full height server rack like this.
https://www.quantumtechnologyequipment.net/products/s6llst3137
So not only wouldn’t it need a whole data center, in fact it wouldn’t even need a whole server room, and actually wouldn’t even need a whole server closet!
I calculated this all out only because I’m procrastinating😆
Tape storage is probably even cheaper and more space efficient