The article says they plan to collect 966 exabytes/year. According to this article, that is roughly the total HDD manufacturing capacity per year, worldwide.
There are two hard drive manufacturers still in business. The R&D/entry barriers to become competitive are steep even by government standards.
An on the surface even more Earth-shattering possibility, but perhaps more plausible, is that the govt has a deal with either HP or Samsung to get first dibs on their now-overdue memristor-based solid state drives, which are supposed to make a petabyte in a typical drive form factor a reality Real Soon Now™
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glugglug ago
The article says they plan to collect 966 exabytes/year. According to this article, that is roughly the total HDD manufacturing capacity per year, worldwide.
Fnordpocalypse ago
That's only what they admit to.
Is it out of the realm of possibilities that the government has a special deal with a company or even their own manufacturing facility?
Or maybe they are already using hard drives several generations more advanced.
glugglug ago
There are two hard drive manufacturers still in business. The R&D/entry barriers to become competitive are steep even by government standards.
An on the surface even more Earth-shattering possibility, but perhaps more plausible, is that the govt has a deal with either HP or Samsung to get first dibs on their now-overdue memristor-based solid state drives, which are supposed to make a petabyte in a typical drive form factor a reality Real Soon Now™
HP memristors