2002-02-27

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2002-02-27 07:31 am

Woohah..

Reading the latest Image and Data Manager magazine .. Has a cool article on the digital storage required by Weta digital, the people doing the special effects for LOTR.

Apparently for all three films, they've needed 150TB of storage in total. 1 TB = 1024GB. That's a mighty lot of tapes. It may or may not surprise people to know that tape drives are still the best way of storing huge amounts of data :) Specifically, about 4000 tapes. Yikes :)

Of course, 150TB is a lot. Co-worker Simon used to work in oil and gas. They had storage networks of up to 4 PB of data. PB = Petabyte. 1 PB = 1024TB = ~1million GB

Mmmm huuuge amounts of data. *drool*

Think of all the MP3s ;)
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2002-02-27 04:26 pm

Woo

Went CD shopping on the way to work this morning. Originally intended just to get Under Rugs Swept, but instead got that and Version 2.0 and Beautiful Garbage. Yay :)

More post update tonight with photos of me setting up 33 pcs at work :)

d00t.