BrikoXM to [email protected]English • 7 months agoJapan achieves staggering 402 Tb/s data rate with commercial optical fiber — record-breaking performance tapped into unused wavelength bandswww.tomshardware.comexternal-linkmessage-square11fedilinkarrow-up1125arrow-down12file-text
arrow-up1123arrow-down1external-linkJapan achieves staggering 402 Tb/s data rate with commercial optical fiber — record-breaking performance tapped into unused wavelength bandswww.tomshardware.comBrikoXM to [email protected]English • 7 months agomessage-square11fedilinkfile-text
New record shows potential high data throughput with no upgrade for current fiber optic infrastructure
minus-squareEleventhHourlinkEnglish13•7 months agoWhen you need to download every show on Netflix, but don’t have much time
minus-square@GlowsticklinkEnglish16•edit-27 months ago3.14 petabytes in the whole Netflix catalog x 1000 converts to TB / 402 TB per second = 7.81 seconds EDIT oh this is Tb, not TB, so x 8 to convert bit to Byte = 62.5 seconds
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish11•7 months agoYou would use a large cluster of servers all stuffed full of enterprise grade SSDs if you need that kind of write speed.
When you need to download every show on Netflix, but don’t have much time
3.14 petabytes in the whole Netflix catalog
x 1000 converts to TB
/ 402 TB per second
= 7.81 seconds
EDIT oh this is Tb, not TB, so
x 8 to convert bit to Byte
= 62.5 seconds
62.5s?! Too slow
Now find a disk that can keep up with those write speeds.
You would use a large cluster of servers all stuffed full of enterprise grade SSDs if you need that kind of write speed.
But my Lord, there is no such force.
Not enough RAID? Insert more RAID!