On Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:57:41 -0700, Darren New wrote:

> Orchid XP v8 wrote:
>> Does this amount of storage actually exist somewhere? (E.g., what kind
>> of space does somebody like Google or Amazon have?)
> 
> I'd guess maybe about a million drives with maybe 250G each, tops? I'd
> read somewhere they had a half-million computers, and they all use
> commodity 160G drives, so something like that. What does that turn out
> to? 250 peta bytes?

There was an article recently about someone at Google talking about 
needing to manage 10 million machines....

Jim

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