Yottabyte

[Joey Green]

Linus wanna upgrade the petabyte project to the yottabyte project?

[Fasauceome]

I read a crazy conspiracy theory once that the government was hiding computer technology advances from the public to have a slow consistent flow of new products, and that we would have yottabytes of storage in a snigle hard drive without government meddling,

[orbitalbuzzsaw]

ExAbYtE pRoJeCt

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That would require 1 billion times more storage, same as going from a single floppy disk to petabyte project, to put that in perspective.  Considering it already takes up an entire thicc drawer on the server rack and cost many tens of thousands of dollars (whether the drives were sponsored or not is kind of irrelevant for the sake of this discussion), I think it's safe to say there's a 0% chance of this happening.

[Fasauceome]

3 minutes ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

That would require 1 billion times more storage, same as going from a single floppy disk to petabyte project, to put that in perspective.  Considering it already takes up an entire thicc drawer on the server rack and cost many tens of thousands of dollars (whether the drivers were sponsored or not is kind of irrelevant for the sake of this discussion), I think it's safe to say there's a 0% chance of this happening.

Buy an entire warehouse that holds nothing but storage in its volume. I'm sure they can do a kickstarter or something for that.

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Just now, fasauceome said:

Buy an entire warehouse that holds nothing but storage in its volume. I'm sure they can do a kickstarter or something for that.

A kickstarter... for literally trillions of dollars... alright then xd

[unijab]

Thanks to thin provisioning... you can already have as large of a file system as you want.