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I have absolutely no idea how that number relates to any comparable operation. Can anyone add a banana for scale?
by jstummbillig 3y ago
I have absolutely no idea how that number relates to any comparable operation. Can anyone add a banana for scale?
- adgjlsfhk1 3y ago10 minutes of 4k video is ~30GB.
- zetsurin 3y agoBased on 2160p movies i've seen around the very largest max out at around 100, and 40 is more common, so this seems wrong.
- jstummbillig 3y agoKnowing the size of a video file is exactly not the information, that would help me put this number in a meaningful perspective with any comparable operation. How do I think of 42 petabytes in terms of an ISP? Is that a lot? How does it compare to other satellite providers? How does it compare to 4G capacities? Is this a small country worth of traffic or just any ol' data center? I have no intuition about traffic at this scale.
- theropost 3y ago42 million gigabytes per day, or if we are working with 30GB for 10min of 4k movies - 233,000 hours of ultra HD movies per day
- deathanatos 3y agoIt's 42 PB per day, though.
- besnn00 3y agoper day*
- e12e 3y ago> 42 million gigabytes per second Per day?
- WheatMillington 3y agoOver estimating by a factor of 86,400.
- MeImCounting 3y agoI still dont think this is what the OP was asking for. This is in the context of an individual-HD video is an individual perspective. More helpful would be a comparison to say a small town or a major city or state.
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- SirMaster 3y agoI feel like this is a bad example. Most people's experience with 4K video is through a streaming service, and 10 minutes of 4K video on a streaming service is more like 1-1.5 GB. Or a UHD Disc perhaps where 10 minutes is 3.5-7 GB.
- colordrops 3y agoIf you've got a laptop with a terrabyte drive, it would be 42,000 full laptops worth of data.
- lizhang 3y agoIf you've got a server farm with a petabyte of storage, it would be 42 server farms
- bee_rider 3y agoImplementing a “comparable operation” to this satellite network using laptops instead is going to be really expensive fuel-wise, I think.
- jonathankoren 3y ago"Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway." -- Andrew Tannenbaum
- madeofpalk 3y agoIf you have a laptop with a petabyte drive, it would be 42 full laptops worth of data!
- colordrops 3y agoMight as well get a 42 petabyte drive.
- whycome 3y ago> If you took a petabyte's worth of 1GB flash drives and lined them up end to end, they would stretch over 92 football fields. https://info.cobaltiron.com/blog/petabyte-how-much-information-could-it-actually-hold https://info.cobaltiron.com/blog/petabyte-how-much-informati...
- organsnyder 3y agoThat's actually a somewhat useful visual.
- vikingerik 3y agoNot really unless you're using 1 GB flash drives from fifteen years ago. 256 GB is now common, which would make that petabyte less than 1 football field. (It's only 4096 such drives.)
- dtgriscom 3y agoYou can buy a 1TB microSD card for $150 now.
- danparsonson 3y agoWhat a time to be alive! Even those of us without a football field can lay out huge amounts of data in a straight line.
- tempmac 3y agodang I can hear the youtube channel voice
- ziddoap 3y ago>Not really unless you're using 1 GB flash drives from fifteen years ago 1GB flash drives are still 1GB today. >256 GB is now common, which would make that petabyte less than 1 football field. (It's only 4096 such drives.) If we're completely changing what we're using for scale, you can fit a petabyte on ~10 100TB drives, which is like 3% the length of an olympic swimming pool.
- permalac 3y agoEMBL-EBI’s open transfer systems provide ~5PB of data each month. ftp.ebi.ac.uk for example.
- stcredzero 3y agoBetter yet, a work in a 35 foot long Twinkie.
- new_user_final 3y agoBangladesh, the whole country, usage 2,300Gbps as of 2021. So 1 Petabyte per hour? Edit: It's international traffic. YouTube, Facebook video has local cache server by ISP.
- MeImCounting 3y agoThis is a useful scale of comparison and what I think OP was after
- jstummbillig 3y agoOP agrees
- theteapot 3y ago486GB/s
- nharada 3y agoAssuming it's a constant data transfer rate, this is 3,889 Gbps. This is - About 4,000 customers worth of maxed out Gigabit internet - ~243,000 simultaneous Netflix 4K streams - 1.6% the capacity of the latest BlueMed undersea fiber cable
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- danbruc 3y agoAccording to a quick search the average US household is closing in on 600 GB of traffic per month, that makes 42 PB per day the internet traffic of 2.1 million households. Incidentally the second picture in the article says 2.3M+ customers. With an US average of 2.5 people per household that is the traffic of 5 million people or 1.5 % of the US population.