[bnegreve]

No 'milliards de milliards' translates to billions of billions. So that would be 10^18

[IanCal]

Could this be translated as "billions and billions" or "billions upon billions"?

[dendory]

Literally it says billions of billions, but in context it most likely means billions upon billions.

[mortehu]

Why? Petabytes seems like a more likely order of magnitude than gigabytes, doesn't it?

eta: From the article: "capable of managing dozens of petaoctets of data, in other words dozens of millions of gigaoctets"

[bnegreve]

Actually 'zillions' is probably the most accurate translation.

[stack0v3erfl0w]

No. The correct translation is "billions of billions"

[chebucto]

Ack, you're right. My French teachers would not be impressed.

[romaind]

Hi, I wrote this post. I see that everyone is as confused as I was with the "milliards de milliards" :) "Millions of trillions" is the right way to say it in English I believe (if you don't want to go over trillions). I edited the headline a couple of minutes after publishing to correct my mistake. Sorry!

[beachstartup]

google says

10^18 bytes in petabytes = 888.17 petabytes

or basically a million terabytes if you round up.

basically 3 million 1TB hard drives in raid 5 (1M x 3). you can probably fit a 500 1TB 2.5" drives into a single rack if you really try, and 2,000 racks can fit easily into warehouse-sized facility. (grid of 100 x 20 racks)