On Wed, 7 Jul 2004, Steve Schear wrote:
Perhaps, but at a Bay Area meeting a few years back held to discuss NSA/SIGINT, I think it was held on the Stanford campus, a developer disclosed that an American contractor manufacturer had won a contract to install 250,000 high-capacity disk drives at one of these agenicies.
stveve
Lets look at that for a second. "A few years ago". Lets call it two years ago. That would make the average hi-cap drive around 30gb. We'll have to assume they want these to be fault-tolerant and with host stanbys, since this *is* the standard implementation, so: 250,000 drives divie by 5 to get RAID groups = 50K groups of 90gb each, or ~4.6 petabytes for this one order. 4.6pb may be a lot, but it wouldn't hold much of the worlds traffic - there's a hell of a lot of filtering going on. -- Yours, J.A. Terranson sysadmin@mfn.org "...justice is a duty towards those whom you love and those whom you do not. And people's rights will not be harmed if the opponent speaks out about them." Osama Bin Laden