Some big numbers at the Hadron Collider

[Rex Boggs]

From an email I received...

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46,000,000,000,000,000 Bytes Can't Be Wrong

Forty six petabytes.

That's the current combined HD and tape storage attached to the large roomful of computers at the
CERN Computer Center. .... That storage (12PB of spinning hard disc space and another 34PB of
robotically accessible tape storage) is what is needed to store and process the insane amounts of
data that the LHC will throw off when it is up and running.

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I can't remember how many zeros a petabyte has. Is this correct?

Cheers

Rex