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Originally Posted by Thomas Ryan
I don't think Amazon's servers are going to run out of space after a couple years. here is why: at 10 megabyte per edition, times 400 days per year, times 10 years, times 100 different newspapers, file compress by a factor of 4 - you get a whopping 10^12 bytes, which is 1000^4 which is a Terabyte's worth of data. You can buy a disk drive this capacity at Fry's for a couple hundred dollars. Amazon's S3 system is probably in the petabyte range.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terabyte
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petabyte |
I'll just take your word for it.
