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		squigz 4 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Pirate library operator arrested, study canceled f... Well I don't think you have to dedicate 650TB or nothing :P A full rack or more sounds like a lot, but I don't know much about hardware, so I'll take your word for it.

Symbiote 4 months ago [–]

At work I have about 1PB per full rack, and that's with plain HP/Dell servers with 12 3.5" hard disks in each.

Maximising storage isn't the purpose of this setup, much denser configurations are possible as others have commented.

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