3 ms·
Here is my math. 200TB = 200,000,000,000,000 B * 8 bits / B = 1,600,000,000,000,000 bits. 1,600,000,000,000,000 / 599,184,000 = 2,670,298 bits/s = 2.67 Mbps w
by Veserv 6y ago
Here is my math.
200TB = 200,000,000,000,000 B * 8 bits / B = 1,600,000,000,000,000 bits.
1,600,000,000,000,000 / 599,184,000 = 2,670,298 bits/s = 2.67 Mbps which I think is in the normal range, though maybe a little low. I think I originally computed from 20 MB/min which I just found by searching on the internet randomly.
Unfortunately, there does not appear to be a consistent number on the amount of data held by the Library of Congress, so how about Wikipedia instead? Wikipedia says Wikipedia is 18.9 GB compressed [1], so 200 TB / 18.9 GB = 10582 Wikipedias. Wikipedia says a Wikipedia would be ~2821 Encyclopedia Britannica volumes which are ~1000 pages each, so this would in total constitute ~30,000,000 volumes of Encyclopedia Britannica exfiltrated before discovery. Hardly a sizeable amount of data.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Size_of_Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Size_of_Wikipedia