Friday, March 27, 2009

Sun Storing The Entire Internet In a Shipping Container [Storage]

Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/uB985HHkdlg/sun-storing-the-entire-internet-in-a-shipping-container

How do you store three petabytes (that's 3,145,728 GB) of web pages for the Internet Archive? You put them in a datacenter housed in a shipping container.

Each container packs in 60 of the company's Sun Fire X4500 Open Storage Systems and is constantly monitored for potential threats. It's actually a pretty elegant, modular solution to an archive that grows by nearly 100TBs every month. So rest assured folks, your precious GeoCities page from the 90's is safe and secure. [Sun via GigaOM via Slashgear]