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8 Oct 2024 23:26:22 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Largest POV image?  
From: Orchid XP v8
Date: 22 Oct 2009 16:13:52
Message: <4ae0bd00$1@news.povray.org>
Warp wrote:
> Orchid XP v8 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
>> Given that a single drive can hold 1 TB, it's not infeasible that 
>> somebody could amass 1,000 of those in a data-center somewhere. That 
>> would give you 1 PB. But 1 EB? Is that really possible yet?
> 
>   But that would not be 1 petabyte as one partition. It would be 1 petabyte
> of disk storage in total, among many smaller drives/partitions.

...unless you can find a RAID controller that supports 1,000 array 
elements. o_O

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