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How about a 4.5PB data center in your backyard

By Fabio on Friday March 27th 2009 03:08 | Category: Hardware

If you had to back up every hard drive, USB key and portable device in your possession, just how much space would it take? What if you wanted to backup the Intarwebs? I see you reaching for that 1TB back pack drive. Not so fast! Try 4.5 Petabytes. That's four and a half quadrillion bytes.

In order to support the ever growing Wayback Machine at Archive.org, Sun just delivered a brand-spanking new data-center in a shipping container. To put that much data storage in perspective, it would hold nearly 55 copies of everything in the Libraries of Congress.

Dude, when that deal with the guy in Lagos comes through, this is the very first thing I'm buying! Take the jump to watch a 4 minute video which would make any good storage addict drool.

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