If your interested in hearing her explain more about it, this is a Ted Talk she did 2 years ago titled “How to Take a Picture of a Black Hole” She even predicted that we would have a picture in the next couple years.
Okay maybe i am too drunk right now (4am here) or i am simply stupid...
But assuming that each drive is 12 TB in storage space... i can count at most 8x8 drives in the top picture... so 12x8x8 = 768 TB
768 TB is far from the mentioned 5.242 TB (~5 PB, Petabytes)
So either those are far from all the drives involved shown in the picture... or some math is wrong somewhere? Honestly asking... articles i have seen mentioned "hundreds of drives" and them being flown to Boston and Bonn. Technically, 8x8 drives to each location is "hundreds"... kind of?!
Edit: The most likely explanation is that the picture in the OP does not show all the drives used, even tho the caption might lead someone to assume so.
HumanSuitcase on April 11st, 2019 at 01:13 UTC »
That is the look of a feeling that I will never feel.
ChiefLoneWolf on April 11st, 2019 at 01:51 UTC »
If your interested in hearing her explain more about it, this is a Ted Talk she did 2 years ago titled “How to Take a Picture of a Black Hole” She even predicted that we would have a picture in the next couple years.
thekrautboy on April 11st, 2019 at 02:32 UTC »
Okay maybe i am too drunk right now (4am here) or i am simply stupid...
But assuming that each drive is 12 TB in storage space... i can count at most 8x8 drives in the top picture... so 12x8x8 = 768 TB
768 TB is far from the mentioned 5.242 TB (~5 PB, Petabytes)
So either those are far from all the drives involved shown in the picture... or some math is wrong somewhere? Honestly asking... articles i have seen mentioned "hundreds of drives" and them being flown to Boston and Bonn. Technically, 8x8 drives to each location is "hundreds"... kind of?!
Edit: The most likely explanation is that the picture in the OP does not show all the drives used, even tho the caption might lead someone to assume so.