Randy at Relay House let me poke around his HD satellite uplink/downlink truck. What a techno rush! But the $1.2 million price tag includes less than a terabyte of storage.
Why? The raison d’etre of a truck like this is to broacast, not store. The real storage impact of this vehicle happens downstream, in the thousands or millions of homes storing these broadcasts on their Tivos.
I’m sure the $6 million semi trailer-sized broadcast trucks break the terabyte barrier. They’re almost the equivalent of a full-featured broadcast studio.
Pete – that was a really fascinating post. I was surprised at the amount of storage in – because I know that some recording studios for example definitely break the terabyte barrier several times over. I could tell you were jonesing for one of those trucks 🙂