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IBM Hard At Work On Building 120 Petabyte Data Drive

IBM Hard At Work On Building 120 Petabyte Data Drive
For a proper sense of proportion, the resulting storage space is enough to fit two dozen billion mp3 files.It’s ample proof that IBM isn’t done in yet, to think before World War 2 the same company sold mere office peripherals and coffee grinders.Not kidding, but Thomas Watson eventually became embara*sed by the latter and dropped them.If he didn’t, maybe fast food chains today might have IBM made coffee grinders.As proof that data storage on an incomprehensible scale is still good business, a small army of researchersmore like a team of researchers to be honest, but that’s what the press sayare dedicated to the project.The 200,000 conventional disk drives are being a*sembled over at Almaden, California where IBM has a bustling lab for such endeavors.

This isn’t an internal upgrade, however, but a commissioned work from an unnamed client.We’re guessing the в