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Internet Archive has developed what it calls the Petabox. A 20x8x8 cube that stores and processes one Petabyte of information (one million gigabytes).

Should be good enough to handle the spam that hits my TWL inbox for a month.

The Petabox

i want one.

You think too small. I need an entire raid array of these. 32 total hooked up to my own personal Cray. Now were playing with power.

How much is it?

Don't ask. If you want one just lop off a leg and arm, hock your soul to the devil >:) and crawl down to their offices and offer your life, limbs, and evil money >:) in exchange for a unit. You would be getting a deal :o

In other words its beyond the purchase ability of us mere cosumers.

I'd estimate that it will sell for about $15k and up once this reaches mainstream market.

Now now kids, dont lop off any limbs or go hocking your soul. I wasnt being literal.

No kidding.

With about 4 of those or a larger array you could host the entire internet.

Couple Hundred OC lines

The entire internet would need a few more than 4 of those. I can't even begin to image the total information storage needed to host the entire internet.

How much does 1 of these cost? $1,000? If it's $1 per GB, then 1,000 GB would be $1,000...Of course, it would be much more because of the technology and the fact that it's new...

if this thing was $1 per gig.. it would be $1million..