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Perhaps 100s of TBs but 100 of GBs is not a difficult problem to solve, perhaps once you get to more than 100 TB you'd be beyond the capabilities of a single chassis.

Even a petabyte should fit in a rack or two.

I really fail to understand how a business could acquire that much data and not be able to sell it.

http://blog.backblaze.com/2013/02/20/180tb-of-good-vibration...

Here ya go, 180 TB for $10K in 4U, which means 10 to a rack which means 1.8 PB per rack. Who has 180 TB of database that isn't worth $10K?



Hi, I work in computational fluid dynamics.


Again you need to look at more than the cost of hardware, that's not the issue. More data requires more managing; performance, backup, failures, etc


Hi, I work in astronomy.




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