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> The vast archive, growing by 20 terabytes each night, will after 1 year contain more optical astronomy data than that produced by all previous telescopes combined.
73 PB over the full runtime of the survey. That’s a nice new datacenter filled to the brim with images.
Storage densities these days are kinda amazing, it's not that much of a datacenter. Assuming you chunk it with triple redundancy, that's 220k TB raw. 10k 22 TB disks, you put them in one of those 4U 50 disk storage pods. 200 pods, 10 of those in a rack with some space left for a switch and power, so that's only 20 racks.