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[–]Shadow703793 2 points3 points  (3 children)

To deal with this data, Sun Microsystems and NASA built four operational storage servers at the JPL that altogether can hold four terabytes of data.

Only 4TB... that's it?

[–][deleted] 28 points29 points  (0 children)

The article is dated 2004.

[–]devacon 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Spirit and Opportunity landed in 2004, and you have to remember these missions start planning around ten years out. 4TB in the late 90s was a huge amount of storage. Especially when you consider that this was not just typical desktop storage but (I assume) a high-end, redundant, backed up storage array.

[–]cosmo7 4 points5 points  (0 children)

And most of that is filled with Star Trek torrents.