60TB is a LOT of data. I'm interested in how SOE stored all of that and the logistics of the transfer. Would magnetic tape have been the easiest? Otherwise you're looking at 60 1TB drives.<br><br>However, in 10 years, there will probably be technology that allows us to store that much on a single device.<br>
<br>Devin<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 3:07 PM, Andrew Armstrong <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:andrew@aarmstrong.org">andrew@aarmstrong.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Interesting stuff: <a href="http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2009/02/aaas-60tb-of-behavioral-data-the-everquest-2-server-logs.ars" target="_blank">http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2009/02/aaas-60tb-of-behavioral-data-the-everquest-2-server-logs.ars</a><br>
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(from /. - <a href="http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/02/16/0621242" target="_blank">http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/02/16/0621242</a> )<br>
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60TB of it. I wonder Henry if your project ask around like that and get that kind of thing in return :D<br>
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Andrew<br>
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