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 ;)
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 ;)