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8 Jul 2009

Gordon, that’s called an SSD drive :) . Freeman, that’s 65536 grams, ie, 65Kg. Jon 08.07.09 / 4pm. Tyler agreed: 250000 tonnes (one 0 too many on the slide). Also there was a 2.5GB 3380 I believe, which would have made that a 100000 tonne solution. … Surprisingly, 1PB of disk with Corsair P256 solid state disks still weighs in at 327Kg. You would require 4096 of these solid state drives at 80 grams each to make this volume. You might be able to fit them in a big shopping …




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