Sometimes, it takes a stroke like this to realise how truly backward my current employer is, in so many ways. We just implemented our first SANs into production - little HP EVA6000s, well underutilized (room for expansion, I call it) at 4.4TB each.

1.3 Petabytes. Wow.

"The top of the ETERNUS8000 line is the Model 2100, which provides up to 1.36 PB of internal storage capacity, the world's largest. The system accommodates up to 16 3.6 GHz processors capable of achiving the world's highest I/O processing performance, approximately 2.5 times faster than Fujitsu's previous top-of-the-line ETERNUS6000 Model 1100 disk array(1). For situations that demand massive storage integration, Model 2100 is able to achive unsurpassed performance."

2760 500 gig drives. Raid 6.

I have neither the data nor the budget for something like this, but I covet. My, do I covet.