This would almost surely require partnering with disk manufacturers since changes to their design would be required. Wireless Interconnect From its inception in 1994, the PetaPlex architecture has been shaped with using wireless networking as the interconnect of choice. The primary motivations were flexibility and cost. At PetaPlex scales, this means hundreds, if not thousands of additional nodes, might be achievable, if the interconnect can be compressed. In this model, the PetaPlex itself acts as a single large switch with the individual nanoservers playing the role of switch ports.
Time is divided into thousand slots.
In subsequent time slots it transmits to the next nanoserver, and so on around until it has transmitted to all nanoservers. Concurrently all the other nanoservers are transmitting similarly concurrently, but offset from one another so that no two are transmitting to the same receiver at the same time. Doing so will result in significantly lower life-cycle costs for cooling, rent, and material selection. As the energy budget for superstorage systems increases with scale, the absolute costs skyrocket, and become an ever increasing percentage of the system's life-cycle cost, thereby acting as a brake on increasing the scale of the system. Nanoservers may draw approximately 100 watts.