Originally posted by twhitehead
You've got that wrong somewhere.
lets say by "gigabytes per day" you meant 10 Gigabytes / day.
Thats 3,650 Gigabytes per year or just under 4 terabyte hard disks. (or just 2 of 2 terabyte disks)
Thats hardly 'single handedly supporting the HD industry'. Even I have a terabyte hard disk.
Even if you meant 'terabytes per day' that would still end up ...[text shortened]... om/2006/09/how-much-data-does-google-store.html
I bet Youtube has even more than that.
Here is a link to the latest stuff at NASA:
http://www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/news/releases/2010/10-33AR.html
There is a supercomputer there with a 1.4 petabyte storage unit. That is just one computer. I saw a report that in 2003 the storage requirements just for space missions was 40 terabits in that year, 7 years ago. I would bet it would be ten times that now. Plus all the data storage for non-space missions. I couldn't find any numbers closer than this on google.
Here is another reference to storage at that facility:
Data Storage
Our HEC users often require staggering
amounts of data storage. With 25 petabytes
(PB) of tertiary storage and 2 PB of disk
storage on the floor, NAS’ mass storage
system allows users to archive and retrieve
important results quickly, reliably, and
securely. We also provide customized
training and support to help users efficiently
manage large amounts of data. For
example, scientists working on ECCO2
I might point out, that is just one facility.
I found an information email line and I asked that question of NASA, maybe I'll get a reply sometime in the next yearπ