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:

15 years ago

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

15 years ago

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

15 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:

15 years ago

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

15 years ago

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

15 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:

15 years ago

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

15 years ago

@joey – thanks for spotting that!
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manaka_junpei says:

15 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:

15 years ago

hahaha. HDD ung boot drive? wapak!
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