Ibm Builds Biggest Data Drive Ever

The 120 petabyte drive could enable detailed simulations of real-world phenomena or store 24 billion MP3s. It is made of 200,000 conventional hard disk drives working together.

IBM Builds Biggest Data Drive Ever

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Biggest Data Drive Ever Built By Ibm Can Back Up 60 Copies Of Wayback Machine

A 120 petabyte drive is being built by researchers at IBM's Almaden, California, R&D lab. It will be the largest data repository ever built, and will comprise 200,000 hard disk drives strung together.

The giant data container is expected to store around one trillion files and should provide the space needed to allow more powerful simulations of complex systems, like those used to model weather and climate.

A 120 petabyte drive could hold 24 billion typical five-megabyte MP3 files or comfortably swallow 60 copies of the biggest backup of the Web, the 150 billion pages that make up the Internet Archive's WayBack Machine.

More: Technology Review (via Cliff Pickover).

Biggest data drive ever built by IBM can back up 60 copies of Wayback Machine

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The World’s Biggest, Iciest Particle Detector

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The World’s Biggest, Iciest Particle Detector

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What was the biggest bargain of the 20th century?

Bargain hunters track down deals every day, and throughout the years, some of these have gone down in history. What were some of the biggest bargains of the 20th century?

What was the biggest bargain of the 20th century?

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Youku Has Biggest U.S. IPO Gain in Five Years on China Demand

Dec. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Youku.com Inc. had the largest gain for a U.S. initial public offering in five years and E-Commerce China Dangdang Inc. almost doubled in its debut after investors flocked to buy into China’s Internet boom.

Youku Has Biggest U.S. IPO Gain in Five Years on China Demand

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