A petabyte is 1000 terabytes. There are commercial hard drives that are over 30 tb. So 33 of these drives hold 1 pb. Times ten makes 330 hard drives to hold 10 pb. All of those drives together would take up just one third of a single full height server rack like this.
So not only wouldn’t it need a whole data center, in fact it wouldn’t even need a whole server room, and actually wouldn’t even need a whole server closet!
I calculated this all out only because I’m procrastinating😆
you’d need a data center just to hold that much information! it’s not like your using cloud storage for this, this is an expensive payload
A petabyte is 1000 terabytes. There are commercial hard drives that are over 30 tb. So 33 of these drives hold 1 pb. Times ten makes 330 hard drives to hold 10 pb. All of those drives together would take up just one third of a single full height server rack like this.
https://www.quantumtechnologyequipment.net/products/s6llst3137
So not only wouldn’t it need a whole data center, in fact it wouldn’t even need a whole server room, and actually wouldn’t even need a whole server closet!
I calculated this all out only because I’m procrastinating😆
Tape storage is probably even cheaper and more space efficient
With modern high capacity drives, it’s possible to have that storage in a single rack. If would probably be about $500,000 worth of drives though.