Comment Re:Storage? (Score 1) 320
More than you ever could imagine.
For us people down under, the Southern Cross is the biggest, fattest pipe we have seen... If this can transfer at 120Gb/sec - the media says thats about a full length DVD every second or so...
lets just assume for a second that GB has the same size link... that's a DVD of info every second...
now, thats 86,400 DVD's of data a day, 31,536,000 DVDs per year, 220,752,000 for the intended archive period...
say the average for the DVD is 5Gb - that's a total of 1,103,760,000 Gb that needs to be archived over a seven year period...
I know this assumes a pipe utilisation of 100% over that time and is probably hugely flawed - but it gives you an idea of how utterly hopeless this idea is :)
For us people down under, the Southern Cross is the biggest, fattest pipe we have seen... If this can transfer at 120Gb/sec - the media says thats about a full length DVD every second or so...
lets just assume for a second that GB has the same size link... that's a DVD of info every second...
now, thats 86,400 DVD's of data a day, 31,536,000 DVDs per year, 220,752,000 for the intended archive period...
say the average for the DVD is 5Gb - that's a total of 1,103,760,000 Gb that needs to be archived over a seven year period...
I know this assumes a pipe utilisation of 100% over that time and is probably hugely flawed - but it gives you an idea of how utterly hopeless this idea is
