The New PC at Warehouse 13

Watched the episode 5 of the Warehouse 13 TV series the other night where they had characters from Eureka crossing over to the show. In this episode, they had the computer running the Warehouse upgraded to a newer machine.

Got a glimpse of the upgrade and this is what I saw:

TTD Proto CPU 4500MHz (4.5GHz)
43.4GB RAM
2,000 Petabytes HDD (4 x 500 Petabytes)

All that archiving they do on the Warehouse must require bazillions of storage — thus the four 500-petabyte hard drive they’re using here.

While the CPU speed is something not surprising these days, the 500 petabyte HDD surely catches attention. To those not familiar, 1 petabyte is 1,000 terabyte so that single HDD has a storage capacity of 500,000TB.

Warehouse 13 is a science fiction TV show on Syfy that chronicles two US Secret Service agents guarding Warehouse 13 which houses supernatural “artifacts”.

Abe Olandres

Abe is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of YugaTech with over 20 years of experience in the technology industry. He is one of the pioneers of blogging in the country and considered by many as the Father of Tech Blogging in the Philippines. He is also a technology consultant, a tech columnist with several national publications, resource speaker and mentor/advisor to several start-up companies.

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32 Comments

Lezuric says:

14 years ago

That was WOW! I really thought it was for real.. hahah
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Winziph says:

14 years ago

grabe super laki, hindi kaya macorrupt yan.
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joeyoliver says:

14 years ago

Sir, isn’t 1 petabye = 1000 TERABYTE?
and 1 TERABYTE = 1000 GB
Therefore 1 petabyte = 1 million GIGABYTE?

500 PETABYTE Then is half a billion GB. WOW!!!
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KanoPee says:

14 years ago

@abeolandres D po ba 1000GB = 1TB and 1000TB = 1PB?
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Jhay says:

14 years ago

I wonder how long it would take to reformat or defrag such a hard drive. :D
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gringo says:

14 years ago

my 4.5GHz pc na ba ngaun na fuctional?… kala ko tlaga my bago..syfy pla… waaaaah

anyways nice heads up sana ma conceptualize yan.. soon!
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Wakocoke says:

14 years ago

ay sucker, HDD pa din sila! dapat SSD na
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Abe Olandres says:

14 years ago

@joey – thanks for spotting that!
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manaka_junpei says:

14 years ago

it’s just a fictional story, but it will happened when the time comes when Intel or AMD invent a 4.5Ghz multi-core processor, when Kingston invent a new Double Data Rate memory maliban sa DDR, DDR2 at DDR3, at when Seagate or Western Digital invent a new HDD with larger capacity at a new SATA Port maybe SATA 3 or what, makakaimbento na yang mga ito kapag 10~20 years after kung buhay pa tayo sa panahong ito
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JP says:

14 years ago

hahaha. HDD ung boot drive? wapak!
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Teknisyan says:

14 years ago

Woah… that hard drive is a digital hoarder’s dream coming true!!!!

kahit 1 penta lang… pwede na!!!
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rotero says:

14 years ago

galing!!! now ko lang narinig na may Petabytes na, nowadays ok n ok na ang 1Tera, but 1Peta!! wow galing talaga!
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android_fanboi says:

14 years ago

@abe – do you watch Fringe? :)
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Abe Olandres says:

14 years ago

@nadroid_fanboi – yup, new fave.
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Pusang Kulog says:

14 years ago

Looks like the total storage capacity is actually 4,000 petabytes (including the supplementary drives)

The day will come… And I hope its soon…
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Fleeb says:

14 years ago

Baka naka RAID lang tapos naka OC yung CPU? Hehehe.
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android_fanboi says:

14 years ago

@abe >> nice! cant wait for season 3 >> coming in september na.. lapit na wooohoooo
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roiji says:

14 years ago

can we also realize that the processor is a bit weak..
as in 30Mhz only.. LOL
Only that it has 150 processors, hence (150×30.0) = 4,500Mhz
World of Warcraft servers has more.. 74,850 more..
http://www.onlineschools.org/blog/unbelievable-wow/

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1,000 petabytes are 1 exabyte
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SI_prefix

Google can process these in 100 days!! O.o
http://richworks.in/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/39.png

And 2 Exabytes are worth…
400 Million four-drawer cabinets filled with text
26,600 years of HD-TV Video
Entire written works of mankind from the beginning of written history in ALL Languages written 50 times.
http://mozy.com/blog/misc/how-much-is-a-petabyte/

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We can expect these hard drives to hit the store in our life time.. don’t worry :)
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Kinny says:

14 years ago

I love warehouse 13! The fact that they pay attention to details like that even for props sake is major plus points!
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eripples says:

14 years ago

Peta-ng in*! ang laki! 1 peta wow! want to know how big 1 petabyte is? take a look at this (promise, hindi to spam)

http://gizmodo.com/5309889/how-large-is-a-petabyte
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lawreas says:

14 years ago

http://a.imageshack.us/img826/2401/shameaquino.jpg
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nixon says:

14 years ago

I used to handle servers with 80+GB ram but that petabyte HD’s is a real wow! Nice one warehouse13
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bryanfer says:

14 years ago

uhm hello po :)

@roi
yung 150 X 30 po is FSB times the Multiplier ng motherboard :) hindi po CORE count times 15 :)

@all
napansin ko rin na may primary at secondary ang storage. ibig sabihin IDE lang gamit nila hindi SATA hehe, medyo kulang ang research ng researcher nila hehe :) anyways nice stat parin ah :)

mapanood nga rin ang series na ito :)

pls visit my site :) www.bryanmania.com
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PopTheCorn says:

14 years ago

They could be using Raid-5 so they’re only actually using 500 petabytes. :)
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EricBangug says:

14 years ago

note that they still have another set of 4 500petabytes on their supplementary drives list (below the screenshot)
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judy says:

14 years ago

Wow Super laki, akala ko tutuo na. hehe , Kelan kaya magkakaroon ng tutuong ganyan?
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lawreas says:

14 years ago

we already have one here in the PH under development. check this link to know more: http://a.imageshack.us/img826/2401/shameaquino.jpg
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James says:

14 years ago

whoah!… 43.4GB RAM !!!! nakngteteng… “spits”less ako!!!
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ladikusz says:

13 years ago

SI prefixes fail… on the screen 4500mHz , the m is lower-case… so it means milli (10^-3). The mega is upper-case M (10^6).
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rasta says:

13 years ago

weeeee
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13 years ago

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