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Re:Section 215 Expires For Now by dm2 on Monday June 01, 2015 @03:12AM (#9637115)
IBM offers 5.5 PB of storage in a 10 square-foot space.

http://www.ibm.com/systems/storage/tape/ts4500/index.html

The Utah Data Center has at least 100,000 square-feet of data center space. If just half of that space was used for storage then it would be over 27 exabytes worth of storage assuming a density similar to what IBM offers.

Backblaze on the other hand has their Storage Pod 4.5 which can hold up to 270 GB of storage for less than $20,000. https://www.backblaze.com/blog/storage-pod-4-5-tweaking-a-pr...

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Re:Section 215 Expires For Now by jrs235 on Monday June 01, 2015 @07:32AM (#9637824)
I'm not sure where you got 270 GB. The article you reference states 180 TB.

Which, according to the article runs less than $10000 (180 TB * 1000 GB/TB * .048 $/GB = $8640 )

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Re:Section 215 Expires For Now by dm2 on Monday June 01, 2015 @07:39AM (#9637853)
180 TB is using 4 TB drives.

270 TB is using 6 TB drives.

Backblaze uses 4 TB drives because of the increased costs and failure rates of the 6 TB drives.

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/bl...

(270 TB * 1000 GB/TB * .051 $/GB = $13770 )

My original estimate of $20,000 was just a rough estimate that added some padding for overhead and accessories.

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Re:Section 215 Expires For Now by jrs235 on Monday June 01, 2015 @07:51AM (#9637888)
That makes sense (180 vs 270) and then GB was just a typo. Thanks for clarifying.
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