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This really helps me, personally, abstract the concept of 'data' a lot more. It's not about files or records, data has a 'volume'. A few PB fills up a shipping
by neals 10y ago
This really helps me, personally, abstract the concept of 'data' a lot more. It's not about files or records, data has a 'volume'. A few PB fills up a shipping container.
Next time my client asks me how "much" a PB is, I can just say "about a shippingcontainer's worth".
- ksec 10y agoThis! So when some one thing 1EB is alot, we can "Nah, is only about 10 45feet containers of data" I wonder what HDD capacity does it use, and when if we could see a 1EB per container.
- rockostrich 10y agoBut bytes/volume isn't a constant. You may be able to say a 100 PB is equal to about a shipping container now, but in 10 years it will be much smaller (probably not keeping up with Moore's Law for storage though).
- masklinn 10y agoEven then it depends on medium, an LTO-7 or HDD can store ~26GB/cm3 while an SDXC tops out at around 1TB/cm3.
- joseph 10y agoIt depends on how the drives are packaged. A 2.5" SSD enclosure is much bigger than the actual storage device inside, which is closer in size to an SD card. Most of the bulk of this Snowmobile is probably taken up by enclosures.