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TheRealMrChips t1_iu2qkvr wrote

Reply to comment by Just_Another_Scott in 3,200 Megapixels: The World’s Largest Camera will be Complete in 2023 by M416_Lover

Which seems like a lot, but with 30TB HDDs coming in 2023 and even larger capacities in the next couple years, 100PB won't be all that hard to make happen over 10 years' time, even with redundant storage and backups taking it to 300-400PB of "actual" storage footprint.

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bsloss t1_iu4ddam wrote

Back of the napkin math says it would only take 5 to 10 racks of something like this to cover the storage requirements. Not something that comes cheap, but certainly doable and still below the industrial scale of massive data centers run by most big tech companies.

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