Re:15 Gigs of data (source: the inq) (Score 2, Informative)

I don't know why they need such a big grid, according to the inquirer they only create about 15 Gigs of data each year.

No, 15 million gigs - now you see! And yes, a full detector read out consists of every non zero channel in the entire detector which comes to about 3 Mb per event and we readout ~200 events/sec. And there are 4 main detectors each doing this. Not even mentioning the processor power to run statistical analysis on these data sets!