Re: The scale of streaming video on the Internet.

[bmanning () vacation karoshi com]

On Sat, Dec 04, 2010 at 09:42:55PM -0500, Scott Morris wrote:
> On 12/4/10 5:56 PM, Jay Ashworth wrote:
> > I recently calculated the capacity of a 747F full of LTO-4 tapes; it's
> > about 8.7 exabytes.  I *think* it's within weight and balance for the
> > airframe.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > -- jra
>
> Just how much free time do you have?  :)
>
> Scott
>
> A

        well... here are the numbers (using LTO-5's)


        you can do the math.


747-8 -- 308647 lb  /  8130 km 
747-8 -- 600 cubic meters

lto-5 -- 3.0 Tb
lto-5 -- 0.6 lb
lto-5 -- 11.3 x 2.79 x 11.1 cm


        and althugh its not generally available,  the LCF has 4x the load of the 747-4f

        http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:747_400LCF_DREAM_LIFTER.jpg

        the killer is going to be the 280m/s write off the tapes. :)


--bill