Finally, enough memory for my movie and TV show collection.
That's a lot of porn!
Being very bored waiting all day for a
passenger, I elected to crunch some more numbers:
4TB drives are available now, so 1.25 billion drives would be required to store 5ZB.
Each drive is about 146 x 101.6 x 19mm, or .281 cubic meters. Total size would be 352,298,000 cubic meters. Roughly the volume of a large container ship.
Each drive costs about $180, using the low end of newegg prices, so about 225 billion dollars.
And all this doesn't include anything but bare drives. You need to mount them, power them, and cool them, which is no easy task that that scale. Somewhere in the 10GW range to power the drives alone, plus the rest of the computing hardware required to actually try and use that much data. And then you have to dissipate all that heat.
Finding a supplier for over a billion hard drives may also prove a challenge, as this would be about two years worth of global production spent entirely on these 4tb models. (Obviously the bulk of drives produced are not 4tb)
The question remains, why ? Why do we need this much storage capacity to fight " terror " ?
After this monstrosity of a Data Center is built I don't want to hear anything from the green energy folks.
I use to work on EMS for large Server Farms. The amount of power to cooling your average medium sized data center is massive.
NSA does provide some measure of the computing power at its new data farm in Utah. It requires 65 megawatts of power, enough for 65,000 homes. It also has its own power substation. In fact, Davis of the NSA says, the availability and relatively low cost of power put Utah at the top of the list for the center.
That much power generates so much heat that the computers will fry without 1.5 million gallons of cooling water a day.
Being very bored waiting all day for a passenger, I elected to crunch some more numbers:
4TB drives are available now, so 1.25 billion drives would be required to store 5ZB.
Each drive is about 146 x 101.6 x 19mm, or .281 cubic meters. Total size would be 352,298,000 cubic meters. Roughly the volume of a large container ship.
Each drive costs about $180, using the low end of newegg prices, so about 225 billion dollars.
And all this doesn't include anything but bare drives. You need to mount them, power them, and cool them, which is no easy task that that scale. Somewhere in the 10GW range to power the drives alone, plus the rest of the computing hardware required to actually try and use that much data. And then you have to dissipate all that heat.
Finding a supplier for over a billion hard drives may also prove a challenge, as this would be about two years worth of global production spent entirely on these 4tb models. (Obviously the bulk of drives produced are not 4tb)
Tish!!!!..Zeta is 1e21...you can buy 1.5 Terra bits 1e9 at any computer hardware store dirt
cheep. Given progression of Hard Drives in the past ten years...I'm sure we will hit that number in less than 10 to 15 years(or a bit loner!!!)
btw...given the fact that Commander Data has 8 quadrillion bits brain capacity 90, 949 Terra bits. Utah facility is still impressive, given they can hold 11 Trillion times Data's brain capacity in their hard-drives.
Diving Mullah
I think is 8 quadrillion Bits so it is 90,
949 Terra Bytes (I remember this because when heard the first time I thought...how stupid to use Bits, rather than Bytes!...Then I assumed the writer of the show assume Bits is a plural of a Byte! and hence the faux pas)
The new Utah NSA facillity will have 5 ZETA-BYTES of memory Capacity.
That's equal to the memory of 312 BILLION I-PHONES.
1 ZETA-BYTE is equal to enough I-Phones stacked flat on top of each other to surpass the moon.
This is enough memory capacity to hold every cell-phone call, every Facebook post, every Forum post, text message, Picture and video, etc, in perpetuity from now on.
That also excludes any new file Compression code that could even attribute to more capacity in the future.
Is this for Al-Qaeda ? Terrorist ?
With enough data collected on everything
and an analyzing algorithm, you could create a program that could ultimately predict the future movements of groups, and with enough individual information could predict what you will do / say / think before you even do / say / think it.
The digital age is so cool. I cant' wait for it to progress beyond search/data mining
for advertisers. What's beyond search/advertising? Prediction? AI? Have we reached the point where we can model the inefficiency of our archaic political system vs other modern best practice systems?I swear it took a shameful 5 full seconds to get Diving's "Commander Data" reference...shame on me!!
What was the Tom Cruise movie where crime was predicted ?
Horrible movie, probably why I can't remember the name.
I think you have made a excellent point. With historic data and trends on specific demographics a highly effective program could be created that would lead to what are essentially highly accurate and instant, educated guess's.
The need for that much data capacity has yet to be explained so there is no telling.
CIA and Google invest in high-tech crystal ball technology
Well, I can't say definitely related, but how much data would it take to know everything about everyone continuously??
I'm glad conservatives are against the Patriot Act. Wait . . . they're not.
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