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Data Centre Total Size

Open Mark4Learn opened this issue 1 year ago • 1 comments

May i know what is your all storage data center total size in PB and how much storage is left?

I do research it has been said that the size of data storage provider will increase at the speed of 30-40% per year.

Mark4Learn avatar Oct 23 '23 22:10 Mark4Learn

"How much storage is left" as a question doesn't really make sense at large scales. When you have hundreds of petabytes (and far larger) scopes, you'll change settings like redundant copy counts, the locations data copies are held, etc. if you ever had an issue with storage in any given area. Even then that's a likely indicating a failing of storage admins / datacentre staff or management / procurement that you ever got to that state.

Its not like you buy all the storage once and that's it for N years (except in very limited scenarios). You buy what you need plus a buffer to accommodate the lead time needed for expansion. "How much storage is left" makes no sense when you can tack on another few racks and add 64PB+ in a matter of weeks.

As you need to cycle hardware due to failures and simply devices coming to the end of their useful life, etc. your capacity will naturally increase over time. Likewise if you need growth you'll use current-gen kit to expand - not buying 5+ year old stuff. If you originally put in appliances with 28 x 1.6TB drives 5 years ago and you're refreshing that kit today, you'd likely replace them with vastly larger drives today: 7.68TB on the cheap end, 15.3TB mid-range and 30.72TB drives on the higher end - the latter being mass-produced for data-centres now for 2-3 years.

MEGA don't seem to publish any details about the types of kit they use (which is a good security practice), but they do publish locations they store data at https://mega.io/server-locations

GH-A-CC avatar Jan 11 '24 11:01 GH-A-CC