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Their donate page says they host 45 PB of data (45k GB). That is a mind boggling amount of data to have available online and can't be cheap. This is absolutely

Their donate page says they host 45 PB of data (45k GB). That is a mind boggling amount of data to have available online and can't be cheap. This is absolutely a cause worth donating to.

jaynetics 7y ago
45 PB is approx. 45 million GB, or 45k TB, or 3000 of the largest HDDs available, or 2 metric tonnes of state-of-the-art hard drives.
- jonah-archive 7y ago
  It's not all on the largest available disks -- currently the primary copy occupies around 9300 hard drives.
  - jaynetics 7y ago
    Wow. Is there a page with more information? I found this picture where they'd just bought a few hundred brand new 4 TB drives: https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Incoming_additional_storage_at_Internet_Archive.jpg https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Incoming_additiona...
    - jonah-archive 7y ago
      Oh wow, hadn't seen that one -- that was in the aftermath of the 2011 Thailand floods that seriously impacted hard drive availability, there was almost nothing in the supply channel so we had to shuck external drives. Sadly there's not really a great one-stop page for this kind of info -- https://archive.org/web/petabox.php https://archive.org/web/petabox.php exists but is sadly outdated (I'll see about rewriting it sometime). We do public tours on Friday afternoons of the main office/datacenter (and our big annual event is coming up next Wednesday if you happen to be in the Bay Area: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/world-night-market-the-internet-archives-annual-bash-tickets-73912162267 https://www.eventbrite.com/e/world-night-market-the-internet... )
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