The Internet Archive has just installed its first Petabox, "a machine designed to safely store and process one petabyte of information (a petabyte is a million gigabytes)." Bookmark this entry and come back to it in five years, when you get a Petabox's worth of storage (with, say, high-resolution scans of the contents of the entire Library of Congress) free under the lid of your lucky Super Big Gulp.
(via Hack the Planet)
Update: Kevin Fox notes: "It appears that, while the design goal is a petabyte, they're only at
one rack, or 100 terabytes. They plan to have a second rack online by
the end of the month, but they don't seem to speculate on when the 8
other racks needed to create a 'petabox' are coming in."
