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Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday June 28, 2011 @08:51AM from the less-than-half-of-it-is-porn dept.

1sockchuck writes "More than 1.8 zettabytes of information will be created and stored in 2011, according to the fifth IDC Digital Universe study. A key challenge is managing this data deluge (typified by the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, which generates 1 petabyte of data per second)."

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LHC data is _not_ stored in the digital universe (Score:4, Insightful)

by rbrausse ( 1319883 ) writes: on Tuesday June 28, 2011 @08:54AM (#36595738)

the experiments may generate the PB per second but most of the data is rejected before it hits any storage system...

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Re:LHC data is _not_ stored in the digital univers (Score:4, Insightful)

by Infiniti2000 ( 1720222 ) writes: on Tuesday June 28, 2011 @09:04AM (#36595880)

Indeed, only about 25PB are stored every year from the LHC.

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