p2pnet.net— This story is about an inventor called Michael Thomas who claims to have a 1.2 petabyte hard disk in the pipeline. He expects it to be ready 'in about four to five years' at a cost of '$750'.
Feb 15, 2006View in Crawl 4
"Try googling the term whois. Then laugh and pretend you know what it all means."Search box = define: whoisWHOIS databases contain nameserver, registrar, and in some cases, full contact information about a domain name. Each registrar must maintain a WHOIS database containing all contact information for the domains they 'host'. A central registry WHOIS database is maintained by the InterNIC. This database contains only registrar and nameserver information for all .com, .net and .org domains.Not so funny!
You can compress that a lot though. Why bother to store every one of those skin cells, when you can just store one as a model and then the differences needed to make all the others? Repeat for other cell types. Red cells are easier still: Store one, and just the x-y-z position of all the identical copies you need. You can dump the hair entirely, and just store the bezier points needed to make each strand from scratch. And so on - plenty of redundent or unneeded data.
We're getting close - as a proportion, very few users would fill even a 500-gig drive. Only pirates and media professionals. The main end-user concern for storage isn't capacity, it's keeping that data safe from human error and equipment failure. Noone has quite found a way to make backups truely idiot-proof, when the typical idiot doesn't even realise it needs to be done.
There are a few other groups that could fill that space. MythTV users are such a group, or legitimate media collectors wishing to create digital backups and/or media-shift for ease of searching and watching. You can fit around 100 full image DVD ISOs into a 500 GB drive, and I know several people with collections far more extensive than that. If you want to decode only the movie/episodes and save to a streamable format, you're looking at maybe around 5-600 DVDs, but that's a lot of time investment over a normal rip.I have 3 TB at home... I should be good for another 5 years or so.
luisnavmFeb 16, 2006
"Try googling the term whois. Then laugh and pretend you know what it all means."Search box = define: whoisWHOIS databases contain nameserver, registrar, and in some cases, full contact information about a domain name. Each registrar must maintain a WHOIS database containing all contact information for the domains they 'host'. A central registry WHOIS database is maintained by the InterNIC. This database contains only registrar and nameserver information for all .com, .net and .org domains.Not so funny!
jnorris441Feb 16, 2006
I wonder what 1/600,000,000,000,000th of a persion is? If there are 10^14 cells in the body, would a petabyte equal 16% of one cell?
Closed AccountFeb 16, 2006
As a physicist, I'd agree with his reasoning, it's sound. As an engineer, I'm laughing, and walking away.
xileFeb 17, 2006
The physics side of his electron movements don't make sense. I'm calling BS.
mdmoyaFeb 27, 2006
@TheCheetaRead this: "that should put the grammar nazi's to bed hehe" You don't think there's missing capitalization, punctuation or grammar?
suricouJul 9, 2009
You can compress that a lot though. Why bother to store every one of those skin cells, when you can just store one as a model and then the differences needed to make all the others? Repeat for other cell types. Red cells are easier still: Store one, and just the x-y-z position of all the identical copies you need. You can dump the hair entirely, and just store the bezier points needed to make each strand from scratch. And so on - plenty of redundent or unneeded data.
suricouJul 9, 2009
Download a few other brains too, and see if you can link them altogether. That'd be fun.
suricouJul 9, 2009
We're getting close - as a proportion, very few users would fill even a 500-gig drive. Only pirates and media professionals. The main end-user concern for storage isn't capacity, it's keeping that data safe from human error and equipment failure. Noone has quite found a way to make backups truely idiot-proof, when the typical idiot doesn't even realise it needs to be done.
apokalypsenowJul 9, 2009
There are a few other groups that could fill that space. MythTV users are such a group, or legitimate media collectors wishing to create digital backups and/or media-shift for ease of searching and watching. You can fit around 100 full image DVD ISOs into a 500 GB drive, and I know several people with collections far more extensive than that. If you want to decode only the movie/episodes and save to a streamable format, you're looking at maybe around 5-600 DVDs, but that's a lot of time investment over a normal rip.I have 3 TB at home... I should be good for another 5 years or so.