Comments on: Protecting the Yottabyte archive http://silvertonconsulting.com/blog/2009/11/11/protecting-the-yottabyte-archive/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=protecting-the-yottabyte-archive Storage, Strategy & Systems Thu, 09 Feb 2012 20:45:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: William hopes http://silvertonconsulting.com/blog/2009/11/11/protecting-the-yottabyte-archive/#comment-35 William hopes Sun, 15 Nov 2009 03:28:42 +0000 http://www.silvertonconsulting.com/blog/?p=994#comment-35 I forgot to mention that the book notes they utilize at least one super computer to track, sort and monitor the massive catalog. William, Yes it will take a lot of computing power to track, sort and monitor the 1YB catalog. Not sure one supercomputer is up to the task unless of course it's composed of 1000's of smaller computers all doing part of the job. Ray I forgot to mention that the book notes they utilize at least one super computer to track, sort and monitor the massive catalog.

William,
Yes it will take a lot of computing power to track, sort and monitor the 1YB catalog. Not sure one supercomputer is up to the task unless of course it’s composed of 1000′s of smaller computers all doing part of the job. Ray

]]> By: William hopes http://silvertonconsulting.com/blog/2009/11/11/protecting-the-yottabyte-archive/#comment-34 William hopes Sun, 15 Nov 2009 03:25:58 +0000 http://www.silvertonconsulting.com/blog/?p=994#comment-34 According to the book body of secrets the NSA uses insanely fast tape storage. They have developed an amazing catalog system to sort and monitor the catalog. In the book it stated that years if not decades ago they could store 10GB onto one square inch of roughly 2 inch wide tapes ( described as 3x bigger than a VHS tape). If that's the case they can store staggering amounts of data with very minimal cost esp compared to hard drives which are far less stable. They even have among the biggest degaussing systems to reuse the tapes. The future is now. William, Given these numbers, it's highly unlikely that NSA is using anything but commercially available storage for this archive. In the past VHS-like storage was available in a data storage product but all those products have gone out of production. Today the two-three tape options are LTO and the proprietary formats from IBM and Sun. And although they are fast, there would need to be a lot of them to keep up with storing and backing up the 1YB archive. Ray According to the book body of secrets the NSA uses insanely fast tape storage. They have developed an amazing catalog system to sort and monitor the catalog. In the book it stated that years if not decades ago they could store 10GB onto one square inch of roughly 2 inch wide tapes ( described as 3x bigger than a VHS tape). If that’s the case they can store staggering amounts of data with very minimal cost esp compared to hard drives which are far less stable. They even have among the biggest degaussing systems to reuse the tapes. The future is now.

William,
Given these numbers, it’s highly unlikely that NSA is using anything but commercially available storage for this archive. In the past VHS-like storage was available in a data storage product but all those products have gone out of production. Today the two-three tape options are LTO and the proprietary formats from IBM and Sun. And although they are fast, there would need to be a lot of them to keep up with storing and backing up the 1YB archive. Ray

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