Call me old fashioned, but I don't see why anyone but a search engine like google would need anything like a petabyte. You can have only so much useful information about anything. Sounds to me like, fill your garage with sh1t, build a bigger garage.
Petabytes are actually pretty common in the sciences. I visited NCAR (National Center for Atmospheric Research [ucar.edu]) in Boulder five years ago and their main database was in the 2PB region even then. I'm sure it's a lot larger today
The LHC will generate several PB of data per year, as will the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope [lsst.org]. These projects aren't all that uncommon.
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The LHC will generate several PB of data per year, as will the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope [lsst.org]. These projects aren't all that uncommon.
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The LHC will generate several PB of data per year
I know 1080p60 takes a lot of space, but I'm not sure I want to see that much hardon's colliding...