In this infographic supplied the online backup company Mozy, we
get a glimpse of the scale of a petabyte, which is equal to one
quadrillion bytes of data. Since this graphic was created by
Mozy, you might be wondering how many petabytes Mozy has stored,
and the answer to that question is roughly 15 petabytes. The
graphic contains many intriguing facts, such as the fact that
that worldwide datacenters now annually consume as much energy
as Sweden. Hardrives are getting larger and larger, but they
remain affordable because the price of them continues to go
down. In 2007, Hitachi announced the world’s first terabyte hard
drive which holds 1000 Gigabytes. One company, Colossal storage,
predicts that it will have a 1.2 petabyte hard drive on the
market in the next 2-5 years. Read the Full Story at The
Infographics Showcase. And to put all this in the perspective of
HPC, check out John West’s excellent article from SC10:
Zettabytes, Petabytes, and All That: The Intersection of
Supercomputing and all the Data We Cre