A petabyte of space should be enough for anybody

Quick, you just got a petabyte of storage, how fast can you fill it? And once it is full how fast can you dump it. If you estimated anything more than 14 hours, then you are too slow. Way too slow. By combining well designed hardware and BeeGFS (f.k.a. FhGFS) you get the Scalable Informatics FastPath Unison storage appliance. A big chunk of storage that delivers 20 gigabytes/sec (sustained). You can learn a more details from the interview on Inside HP.