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You joke but I found this interesting (from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metal_oxide_semiconductor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metal_oxide_semiconductor): >
by kloch 5y ago
You joke but I found this interesting (from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metal_oxide_semiconductor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metal_oxide_semiconductor):
> It is the basic building block of modern electronics, and the most frequently manufactured device in history, with an estimated total of 13 sextillion (1.3×10^22) MOSFETs manufactured between 1960 and 2018
64 bits can address 1.8x10^19 bytes. Of course there is not a 1:1 correlation between mosfets ever made and bytes of ram usable today but it's curiously close to the 64-bit limit so you could say 64 bits is just enough to address every byte in the world.
I wonder how much magnetic storage would add to that?
- Dylan16807 5y ago> I wonder how much magnetic storage would add to that? A lot. Just looking at hard drives, if you take an estimate of 250 million units made in 2020 and multiply by a conservative 4TB, you get 10^21 bytes for that single year.
- monocasa 5y agoI worked on a magnetic storage device that stored an exabyte, so quite a bit.