batchtaster
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Ask them about the complete re-write of their meta-data server.
Apple Locks in 12 Petabytes of iTunes Video Content Storage?
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Ask them about the complete re-write of their meta-data server.
Steam seem to have a fair few data centers themselves. I guess the Apple equivalent will have a drop down with one entry.
When I started my first job they routed all the internet traffic through Mountain View, California. It was still fairly quick but a bit wasteful when I wanted to access local stuff in Dublin.
Digital Skunk
macrumors G3
I am sure they've got plenty of Xserve RAIDs . . . . oh wait.
Let's hope they aren't doing this with a bunch of Drobos.
Let's hope they aren't doing this with a bunch of Drobos.
ten-oak-druid
macrumors 68000
My first computer had a tape drive. A Commodore Vic 20. I wonder how long a cassette tape needs to be to hold a TB not to mention a PB?
thogs_cave
macrumors regular
I want *that* commission!
Some sales rep is really, really happy right now. As is EMC, who just acquired Isilon. Promotions all around!
And, it's not cheap storage either. Even using 2T Enterprise-class drives (I am not aware yet of any 3T drives at that level), it's 7,224 drives (1024T per petabyte).
I'm assuming it's raw (no RAID, no fileystem) storage. If it's cooked, then it's considerably more drives. Man., that's a lot of racks full of whirring spindles.
Or, to look at it another way, that's enough storage to give 50G to just under 15 million users. Whee!
Some sales rep is really, really happy right now. As is EMC, who just acquired Isilon. Promotions all around!
And, it's not cheap storage either. Even using 2T Enterprise-class drives (I am not aware yet of any 3T drives at that level), it's 7,224 drives (1024T per petabyte).
I'm assuming it's raw (no RAID, no fileystem) storage. If it's cooked, then it's considerably more drives. Man., that's a lot of racks full of whirring spindles.
Or, to look at it another way, that's enough storage to give 50G to just under 15 million users. Whee!
mrsir2009
macrumors 604
dukebound85
macrumors Core
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Or, to look at it another way, that's enough storage to give 50G to just under 15 million users. Whee!
I think it is more about 1 gig for about 12 million people no?
that's what I'm thinking... to support a iTunes cloud and new mobileme services, I would expect exabytes... Doesn't seem that big of an order.
plinden
macrumors 601
See below.
Exactly - assuming Apple stores everything in HD + SD @ 2GB/hour of HD and 1GB/hour of SD, that's over 4 million hours of video (since 1PB = 1048567GB).
If iTunes goes 1080p, it would likely be stored as about 4-5GB/hour + SD, or about 2.5 million hours of video.
If (and it's a big if) this is open to iTunes subscribers, it will likely be only for content you buy off iTunes, so there will be no duplication.
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phpmaven
macrumors 68040
12 Petabytes doesn't seem like all that much. I have a 2TB drive sitting on my desk, and this would be like 6,000 of my drives. Doesn't seem like that much when you think about the amount of customers they are likely to be serving.
Younger Dr. Emmett Brown: [running out of the room] 1.21 gigawatts? 1.21 gigawatts? Great Scott!
Marty McFly: [following] What-what the hell is a gigawatt?
Is that the car from back to the future? Those movies were great
Younger Dr. Emmett Brown: [running out of the room] 1.21 gigawatts? 1.21 gigawatts? Great Scott!
Marty McFly: [following] What-what the hell is a gigawatt?
Dead or alive, you're coming with me.
These are serious charges. What is your evidence?
Laird Knox
macrumors 68000
It's not like they are fixed at that number.
dark knight
macrumors regular
as a home mac user, im just interested in how these hard-core internet serving hard drives difffer from consumer ones. can any one explain the technical side of it?
do they work like raid and stripe data across load of drives?
what if one fails, do you swap it for a new module, and if so, how is its contents reinstated? also, anyone know what sort of storage system google uses?
just interested.
do they work like raid and stripe data across load of drives?
what if one fails, do you swap it for a new module, and if so, how is its contents reinstated? also, anyone know what sort of storage system google uses?
just interested.
Constable Odo
macrumors 6502
That's a huge amount of storage. For my Mac Plus, I purchased a 20 MB SuperMac DataFrame external hard drive. Very cheap, too. It only cost me about $600.
It took almost a year to fill it with basically games, clip art and Illustrator files.
skellener
macrumors 68000
Go price out 12PB from Isilon and see how much it costs. It ain't $80 a TB.
skellener
macrumors 68000
Exactly dukebound85. You only need one copy of a song or movie to store or stream, not one for each customer. Digital, remember?
I found this while on the wki page...coolest website ever. Ha ha ha! You can even order a personalized autographed CD of his! Poor Brent, things are that bad
http://www.therealbrentspiner.com/
Wow... and the "Latest News" is from 2009!
Laird Knox
macrumors 68000
I take it math isn't your strong subject?
US debt is approximately $14 trillion. A peta- is 1000 times larger than a tera- and you are suggesting that the debt is 1000 time larger than that. That's OK, you only missed by a factor of one million.
Yeah Isilon stank, had to deal with them at two facilities, they have now both moved on (BlueArc/GPFS) and won`t be going back, support was atrocious, and their updates had a nasty habit of changing base functionality.
They weren`t even that competitive. EMC must have sweetened that deal.
They weren`t even that competitive. EMC must have sweetened that deal.