previous installment link at the top is wrong (room 404), should point here.

@ astine:

Robotic tape? Like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2efhrCxI4J0

We have RAID devices sure. Actually, the bulk of the data is stored on robotic tape systems which use SAN devices as a front end cache so that we can fake a proper filesystem. I’m at the US Library of Congress, in case you’re wondering why we need so much storage.

@ ths:

Actually no. I never read the whole series – only isolated bits here and there. :P

@ astine:

Holy crap, 30 petabytes? That’s a lot of space! Are you using sriped RAID or something? I’m fairly sure there are no petabyte drives out there.

Ha! I don’t have to worry about shitty Windows services filling up the shares I maintain. Then again, my shares aren’t so much shares as archives and rather than being a terabyte in size, they’re closer to 30 petabytes. Oh, and even saying the word “delete” to my users can lead to firings.

I assume you know the complete BOFH series by heart ;)