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Who counts in CD-ROMs in 2022?

delecti 5y ago
Is there a more recent storage medium with a single size (ish, 650 vs 700 is close enough)? USB drives come in all sizes, and DVD and Blu-Ray come in single and multi-layer. It's also the last time most people interacted with the media for storage, rather than buying pre-pressed copies. I struggle to think of a better measurement unit for a lay person.
- pbhjpbhj 5y ago
  X hours of HD/2k/4k video?
  - layer8 5y ago
    That’s a bad measure, it depends a lot on the codec and the selected picture quality (and also on the picture content).
    - geenew 5y ago
      X [s/m/h] of [jwst/ska/lhc] data?
    - pbhjpbhj 5y ago
      It's certainly a bad technical measure, but then stacks of CDROMs could all be super sparsely populated, those human capillaries going around the world are stretchy, etc. I think it's a reasonable metric for huge quantities of data when communicating to the general public - you can specify the movie to narrow it too. So "the LHC produces 90 Petabytes of data per year, that's the same amount of data as streaming Avengers Endgame in 4K high-definition 40 million times! Bet their ISP wishes they hadn't offered them the unlimited data package!!" yadda-yadda?
- Brian_K_White 5y ago
  There really isn't is there? Interesting observation. The closest thing I can think of is 1T laptop drives. Now I know that sounds dumb decause 1T is really just a number and you might as well just say the real number instead some other number, also, why add the pointless word "laptop"?, but the point is to make the number meaningful by comparing it to something a person actually has some concept of. I have no idea what 4 petabytes means really, but I have a some idea what a gigabyte means, and from that at least a hint of what it means that my 1T laptop drive is only 20% used. So "1T laptop drives" is actually a more meaningful unit than petabytes. Don't bother pointing out that laptops come with different size drives, or that probably today most people don't even have a laptop but just a phone, and have no idea how much storage it has in any real undrstanding kind of way. I know, I know. Just proves your original point.
  - medstrom 5y ago
    Not to be polemic, but what's a "drive"? What's a "T"? The people who ask that are why you might speak of CD-ROMs instead.
  - prmoustache 5y ago
    Most people don't even know the size of their laptop drive. Only measurement they know is if it is full or not, and it can even take them time to realize this.
alophawen 5y ago
It amounts to ~7 dishwashers https://old.reddit.com/r/BrandNewSentence/comments/i7p1on/roughly_the_size_of_six_to_seven_washing_machines/ https://old.reddit.com/r/BrandNewSentence/comments/i7p1on/ro...
mensetmanusman 5y ago
Should be number of 4k Netflix movies…

Is there a more recent storage medium with a single size (ish, 650 vs 700 is close enough)? USB drives come in all sizes, and DVD and Blu-Ray come in single and multi-layer. It's also the last time most people interacted with the media for storage, rather than buying pre-pressed copies. I struggle to think of a better measurement unit for a lay person.

pbhjpbhj 5y ago
X hours of HD/2k/4k video?
- layer8 5y ago
  That’s a bad measure, it depends a lot on the codec and the selected picture quality (and also on the picture content).
  - geenew 5y ago
    X [s/m/h] of [jwst/ska/lhc] data?
  - pbhjpbhj 5y ago
    It's certainly a bad technical measure, but then stacks of CDROMs could all be super sparsely populated, those human capillaries going around the world are stretchy, etc. I think it's a reasonable metric for huge quantities of data when communicating to the general public - you can specify the movie to narrow it too. So "the LHC produces 90 Petabytes of data per year, that's the same amount of data as streaming Avengers Endgame in 4K high-definition 40 million times! Bet their ISP wishes they hadn't offered them the unlimited data package!!" yadda-yadda?
Brian_K_White 5y ago
There really isn't is there? Interesting observation. The closest thing I can think of is 1T laptop drives. Now I know that sounds dumb decause 1T is really just a number and you might as well just say the real number instead some other number, also, why add the pointless word "laptop"?, but the point is to make the number meaningful by comparing it to something a person actually has some concept of. I have no idea what 4 petabytes means really, but I have a some idea what a gigabyte means, and from that at least a hint of what it means that my 1T laptop drive is only 20% used. So "1T laptop drives" is actually a more meaningful unit than petabytes. Don't bother pointing out that laptops come with different size drives, or that probably today most people don't even have a laptop but just a phone, and have no idea how much storage it has in any real undrstanding kind of way. I know, I know. Just proves your original point.
- medstrom 5y ago
  Not to be polemic, but what's a "drive"? What's a "T"? The people who ask that are why you might speak of CD-ROMs instead.
- prmoustache 5y ago
  Most people don't even know the size of their laptop drive. Only measurement they know is if it is full or not, and it can even take them time to realize this.

alophawen 5y ago

It amounts to ~7 dishwashers https://old.reddit.com/r/BrandNewSentence/comments/i7p1on/roughly_the_size_of_six_to_seven_washing_machines/ https://old.reddit.com/r/BrandNewSentence/comments/i7p1on/ro...

mensetmanusman 5y ago

Should be number of 4k Netflix movies…