[LINK] Aussie internet pain after Asian subsea cables cut

[Andy Farkas]

> Link Instutie researchers took ordinary SSD solid state disk drives 
> and packed them in briefcase sized modules. Each module has 500 SSDs, 
> and has a 30,000 terabyte capacity. Forty of the modules are packed 
> into two modified external fuel tank on the F/A-18E aircraft, for a 
> total of 1,200,000 terabytes.

You can actually get a Petabyte of storage in 1U of rack space these days:

  https://www.pcper.com/news/Storage/FMS-2017-Intels-EDSFF-Ruler-SSD-Form-Factor-Details-Emerge-1-Petabyte-1U-Chassis

-andyf