Apple Locks in 12 Petabytes of iTunes Video Content Storage?

[MacRumors]

StorageNewsletter.com reports (via AppleInsider) that Apple has placed a massive order with Isilon Systems for up to 12 petabytes of storage to support iTunes video offerings.

Apple ordered as much as 12PB of capacity from Isilon Systems, notably to manage the video download of its customers using iTunes, according to an inside source of the new division of EMC.

According to the report, the order is likely to make Apple the largest of Isilon's 1,500 worldwide customers.

Apple is of course set to bring its massive new data center outside of Maiden, North Carolina online any day now, and Apple has reported that the facility will be used to support iTunes and MobileMe services. The company has, however, reportedly also been looking to deploy new cloud-based services that would allow users store music, video, and photos on Apple's servers for access from multiple Internet-connected devices.

Article Link: Apple Locks in 12 Petabytes of iTunes Video Content Storage?

 

[ten-oak-druid]

Will it be backed up to a time machine?

 

[moneyman118]

How much is that?

 

[troop231]

How much is that?

12,000,000 GB I believe roughly? *Actual Formatted Capacity May Very Haha

 

[Ingot]

How much is that?

About 12 PB's worth I guess.

 

[mattwolfmatt]

1 petabyte = 1000 terrabytes or 1 million gigabytes.

 

[macintel4me]

Wow! You would think that 10 PB would be enough, but 12!!

 

[Alisstar]

Petabytes didn't exist in my dictionary until today. Thank you, MacRumors.

How many gigabytes is a petabyte anyway?

 

[Žalgiris]

12 PB in hard drives?

 

[MacFreak2011]

How much is that?

Per wikipedia, 1 Petabyte = 1000 terabytes

 

[toddybody]

Im curious how long that will suffice...

 

[supasubu]

Will it be backed up to a time machine?

...from an external made by WD no-less

 

[troop231]

Will it be backed up to a time machine?

Only in this one:

 

[ten-oak-druid]

How much is that?

peta = x10^15 (quadrillion times)

tera = x10^12 (trillion times)
giga = x10^9 (billion times)
mega = x10^6 (million times)
kilo = x10^3 (thousand times)
hecto = x10^2 (hundred times)
deca = x10^1 (ten times)

 

[saving107]

12 Petabytes, is that all (Lame).


*Sarcastic Post

 

[DrDomVonDoom]

I'd buy that for a dollar!!!

 

[DouchGod]

12 petabytes is mind blowing, i remember my first windows pc with 300mb of hdd space.

i'm not to keen on this whole cloud computing concept that is floating around at the moment. Anyone else have doubts?

 

[ten-oak-druid]

Only in this one:

LOL - using a thunderbolt drive powered with 1.21 GigaWatts

...from an external made by WD no-less

LOL From Amazon...

 

[O and A]

xserves

I'm still wondering if there are xserves in there.

 

[decimortis]

i'm not to keen on this whole cloud computing concept that is floating around at the moment.

pun intended?

 

[nagromme]

Sorry for the newbie question: will I need the largest iPod to fit that? Or will the base model do?

TIA

 

[troop231]

12 petabytes is mind blowing, i remember my first windows pc with 300mb of hdd space.

i'm not to keen on this whole cloud computing concept that is floating around at the moment. Anyone else have doubts?

Yeah, I have doubts.. "cloud" aka server will be great when bandwidth is around us 24/7 and covering the whole globe with no hiccups, until then meh.. The whole rebranding a server as a cloud is getting old.

 

[Mister Snitch]

12 Petabytes, is that all (Lame).


*Sarcastic Post

In a few years you'll have that much in your wristwatch.

 

[deadkennedy]

Meh, my mom has 13PB of RAM on her sunglasses.

 

[ShiftyPig]

So you can get a 1TB hard drive for $80.... 12,000 of those.... not that big of an expenditure tbf.