HP mass storage offers management cost savings.
Hewlett Packard launch petabyte storage option.
HP have launched their offering for extreme data storage requirements (aptly named the ExD9100) which will be a hit in storage environments such as engineering, design, photography and R&D.
Increased data quantity capable offerings are inevitable on an ongoing basis with the current industry requirement increments doubling every 18 months.
The ExD9100 runs on the HP Blade chassis. The base systems offers 246 Terabytes of storage. Or 820 Terabytes per rack with the option to add an additional Rack.
HP are ahead of the game with this the ExD series for a number of reasons. While most providers are approaching the market with the common “cheaper per gig” approach, HP are offering a system which reduces the amount of salary overhead per gig or more directly, they are increasing the amount of data which one administrator can manage. Our following of this is broadly linked to our intended launch of the NAZAV data store which will take place in July. The NAZAV is a network drive in a box solution which has its own operating system, RAID and replication capabilities.
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May 22nd, 2008 at 1:55 pm
What exactly is a petabyte?
I lost track after bit, byte, kilo, mega, gigi, terra…..
Whats next and can anyone continue it further?
Ray
May 22nd, 2008 at 9:05 pm
Same as that Ray.
Here is what I think.
A bit is the smallest amount of data. A byte is eight bits. I think a byte is one character. A kilobyte is either 1000 or 1024 bytes. A megabyte is either 1000 or 1024 kilobytes. A gigabyte is either 1000 or 1024 megabytes. A terrabyte is either 1000 or 1024 gigabytes. Same someone correct (the 1000 / 1024 thing) and continue please.
Fair play to ye Ray, I have thought about this before but never got round to askin before.
May 23rd, 2008 at 9:25 am
Not far off. I reckon you have a better understanding than most people. You could be forgiven for believing there were 1000 bytes in a kilobyte. In fairness “kilo” does mean 1000. However, there are 1024 bytes in a kilobyte. Computer mathematics uses the binary system. As a consequence, devices and space such as disk drives and memory are measured in powers of 2.
The following demonstrates how this came to pass.
• 2^0 = 1
• 2^1 = 2
• 2^2 = 4
• 2^3 = 8
• 2^4 = 16
• 2^5 = 32
• 2^6 = 64
• 2^7 = 128
• 2^8 = 256
• 2^9 = 512
• 2^10 = 1024
You can see that 2^10 is 1024. As a consequence, 2^10, or 1024 bytes compose one kilobyte. Furthermore, 1024 kilobytes compose one megabyte, and 1024 megabytes compose one gigabyte. For most practical purposes, you can estimate 1024 to 1000. Be careful correcting people as many people who use the verbal rounding to 1000 actually have a clear understanding of the correct figures.
As for your word list for differing sized data chunks, I got this excellent chart from t1shopper.com If someone wants to extend our understanding further all the better.
File Storage Capacity by Bits and Bytes
bit byte Kilobyte Megabyte Gigabyte
bit 1 8 8,192 8,388,608 8,589,934,592
byte 8 1 1,024 1,048,576 1,073,741,824
Kilobyte 8,192 1,024 1 1,024 1,048,576
Megabyte 8,388,608 1,048,576 1,024 1 1,024
Gigabyte 8,589,934,592 1,073,741,824 1,048,576 1,024 1
Terabyte 8,796,093,022,208 1,099,511,627,776 1,073,741,824 1,048,576 1,024
Petabyte 9,007,199,254,740,990 1,125,899,906,842,620 1,099,511,627,776 1,073,741,824 1,048,576
Exabyte 9,223,372,036,854,780,000 1,152,921,504,606,850,000 1,125,899,906,842,620 1,099,511,627,776 1,073,741,824
Zettabyte 9,444,732,965,739,290,000,000 1,180,591,620,717,410,000,000 1,152,921,504,606,850,000 1,125,899,906,842,620 1,099,511,627,776
May 23rd, 2008 at 9:27 am
You may hove to paste that data to a spreadsheet to read as the figures are so big. I am as new to blogs as this blog is new but I will repost it in a spreadsheet as soon as I get a chance to look at it…..
May 25th, 2008 at 5:42 pm
cheeky newb here. can you guys elaborate further and continue for larger quantities
June 3rd, 2008 at 10:35 am
Hope this helps. If you want to take it further I’d appreciate if you posted it here.
Name Abbr. Size
Kilo K 2^10 = 1,024
Mega M 2^20 = 1,048,576
Giga G 2^30 = 1,073,741,824
Tera T 2^40 = 1,099,511,627,776
Peta P 2^50 = 1,125,899,906,842,624
Exa E 2^60 = 1,152,921,504,606,846,976
Zetta Z 2^70 = 1,180,591,620,717,411,303,424
Yotta Y 2^80 = 1,208,925,819,614,629,174,706,176