In preparation for its latest round of ion-smashing tests, CERN boosted its storage array for the experiments to more than one million terabytes in total size. The facility's data store now exceeds an exabyte of raw capacity - with much of it on hard disk drives and an "increasing fraction of flash drives," the European super-lab's team explained in a report . It's one thing to increase capacity, it's another thing to be able to access it in a timely fashion, as Andreas Peters, who heads up CERN's EOS storage system, explained: "It is not just a celebration of data capacity, it is also a performance achievement, thanks to the reading rate of the combined data store crossing, for the first time, the 1TB/s threshold.

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