A Yottabyte of Storage Per Year by 2013 246
Lucas123 writes "David Roberson, general manager of Hewlett-Packard's StorageWorks division, predicts that by 2013 the storage industry will be shipping a yottabyte (a billion gigabytes) of storage capacity annually. Roberson made the comment in conjunction with HP introducing a new rack system that clusters together four blade servers and three storage arrays with 820TB of capacity. Many vendors are moving toward this kind of platform, including IBM, with its recent acquisition of Israeli startup XIV, according to Enterprise Strategy Group analyst Mark Peters."
Ha Ha have any of you jokers noticed (Score:5, Informative)
or 10^12 * 10^12
I thought geeks hung out here......
A billion Gigabytes? (Score:5, Informative)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yotta [wikipedia.org]
Re:A billion Gigabytes? (Score:3, Informative)
FAIL all around
A billion gigabytes would be an exabyte. A billion terrabytes would be zettabyte. A trillion terabytes or a quadrillion gigabytes would be a yottabyte.
Wikipedia to the rescue [wikipedia.org]
Re:A billion Gigabytes? (Score:2, Informative)
Re:The new term (Score:2, Informative)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yobibyte [wikipedia.org]
Re:In a Galaxay Close to Home (Score:2, Informative)
A list for your edification (Score:5, Informative)
Anyway, I emailed them this link to the terms [techtarget.com] in question, and post it here, for your edification. I have a post-it note on my bookcase with these terms - I think that as time goes on, knowing EXACTLY what each one is will be of some use. Until the oil runs out and we are shivering in the cold, anyway...
Here's their names, abreviations and their power of ten, so you know how big/small it is.
yocto- y 10^-24
zepto- z 10^-21
atto- a 10^-18
femto- f 10^-15
pico- p 10^-12
nano- n 10^-9
micro- m 10^-6
milli- m 10^-3
centi- c 10^-2
deci- d 10^-1
(none) -- --
deka- D 10^1
hecto- H 10^2
kilo- K 10^3
mega- M 10^6
giga- G 10^9
tera- T 10^12
peta- P 10^15
exa- E 10^18
zetta- Z 10^21
yotta- Y 10^24
RS
10^18 bytes ... isn't that "Exabyte"? (Score:5, Informative)
Unless we're talking about the British "billion"?
Re:10^18 bytes ... isn't that "Exabyte"? (Score:4, Informative)
Bigger, Not Faster (Score:3, Informative)
But personal drives don't need as high speeds for one person's use, especially when the high capacity is for large media content objects that are stored unfragmented. We don't need to spend the money on transfer speeds so much faster than our playback speeds that it's never used. Large builtin caches are useful for real random-access data in small chunks, like programs or numerical datasets, not media.
Blu-Ray's max transfer speed is 54Mbps [wikipedia.org], though that's for recording - 48Mbps is max playback. 3x for buffering during FWD/REV scanning playback would be 144Mbps, 2.25MBps. Big drives currently recommended for personal use, like Seagate's 1TB Barracuda ES.2 [storagereview.com], get at least 53MBps transfer, over 23x as fast as the fastest it will ever really be asked to deliver. If it weren't so unnecessarily fast, maybe it would cost less, and an array of them for the same hundreds of dollars would hold more content.
With 50GB Blu-Ray HD titles to store, getting more sets of 20 titles in each HD in a RAID is a lot more important than getting them faster than they can be played.
Re:A billion Gigabytes? (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Ha Ha have any of you jokers noticed (Score:2, Informative)
Re:How do they get this number? (Score:2, Informative)
That still gives 1 YB by 2019..
Yeah, that might be it. But to me it seems more likely that the article meant something other than the "yotta" preffix
Yobibyte, officially. It's 1 YiB = 1.208 YB, see the wikipedia link [wikipedia.org]. They're still close enough in relative terms to use interchangeably when referring to orders of magnitude, but the absolute difference is a few everything-humanity-has-ever-stored units.
Hey, we're only off by a factor of 1 million (Score:3, Informative)
A yottabyte [wikipedia.org] is not "a billion gigabytes." How about trying to confirm or understand the numbers your post, before you slap them on the front page?
The binary prefix giga = 10243
The binary prefix yotta = 10248
That means a yottabyte is 10245 gigabytes, or roughly one million billion gigabytes.