IBM Building 124 Million GB Data Drive
IBM Building 124 Million GB Data Drive
IBM Almaden is in the midst of developing a record breaking 120 petabyte (120 million GB) data storage system. The system is being built out of approximately 200 hard drives for an unnamed client to model powerful simulations of complex real world phenomena such as weather and climate.
Currently, the largest arrays available are about 15 petabytes, making the new system almost ten times larger than anything previously built. The new data container is expected to store around one trillion files.
IBM director of storage research and leader on the project, Bruce Hillsberg, is confident that the new technologies developed in the creation of the system could have future applications in more consumer based devices. Hillsberg said,
This 120 petabyte system is on the lunatic fringe now, but in a few years it may be that all cloud computing systems are like it.
Source: Technology Review