What Does 10 Petabytes of Data Look Like?

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  1. Brandon

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    An interesting video on archive.org, check it out!



    What you don’t see is the massive amount of effort, data and storage necessary to capture and maintain those archives. Filmmaker Jonathan Minard’s documentary Internet Archive takes a behind the scenes look at how (and why) the Internet Archive’s efforts are preserving the web as we know it.

    The interview with Brewster Kahle, founder of the Internet Archive, especially offers a look at not just the idea behind the archive, but the actual servers that hold the 10 petabytes of archived websites, books, movies, music, and television broadcasts that the Internet Archive currently stores.
     
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    Great video and very interesting.
     
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    I thought it was interesting that the servers are all out in the open like that... I would think that would be locked up.. maybe the old church is high security.
     
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    very interesting and refreshing... but I do wonder why they have all our data organized that way... Aint there any abuse law around? :D
     
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