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"The stored data amounts to 858TB (terabytes), equivalent to 449.5 billion A4 sheets" Just so we can all visualise this in an understandable way, if laid end-t
by phatfish 1y ago
"The stored data amounts to 858TB (terabytes), equivalent to 449.5 billion A4 sheets"
Just so we can all visualise this in an understandable way, if laid end-to-end how many times round the world would the A4 sheets go?
And what is their total area in football fields?
- porkbrain 1y agoIf you stacked them they would be about fifty thousand Popocatépetls high, give or take a few zeroes. UPDATE: as sibling pointed out indirectly, it's eight thousand Popocatépetls [0]. [0]: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=449.5+*10%5E9+*+%28thickness+of+a+sheet+of+paper%29+%2F+%28height+of+Popocat%C3%A9petl%29 https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=449.5+*10%5E9+*+%28thic...
- akpa1 1y ago190,813,414 and a bit times round the equator if you place them long edge to long edge
- panda-giddiness 1y agoAttached end-to-end, they'd extend almost from the Earth to the Sun [1]. Placed in a grid, they'd cover an area larger than Wales [2]. Piled on top of each other, they'd reach a tenth the distance to the moon [3]. --- [1] https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=449.5+*10%5E9+*+%28length+of+an+A4+sheet%29+%2F+1+AU https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=449.5+*10%5E9+*+%28leng... [2] https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=449.5+*10%5E9+*+%28area+of+an+A4+sheet%29 https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=449.5+*10%5E9+*+%28area... [3] https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=449.5+*10%5E9+*+%28thickness+of+a+sheet+of+paper%29+%2F+%28distance+to+moon%29 https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=449.5+*10%5E9+*+%28thic...
- nonethewiser 1y agoI am shocked that 1 and 2 are both true. I would have guessed 1 would have implied a much larger area than Wales.
- Panzer04 1y agoFunny how unintuitive N^2 growth can be :D
- Cthulhu_ 1y agoI love that people are still trying to put data on A4s and we're long past the point of being able to visualize it. That said, if I'm ever fuck-you rich, I'm going to have a pyramid built to bury me in and a library of hardcover printed wikipedia.
- BonitaPersona 1y agoActual football fields please, the International Standard Unit footbal field, used in SI countries.
- andrewmcwatters 1y agoRegional SI football fields or Cup? ;)
- nonethewiser 1y agoFootball or soccer?
- ramraj07 1y agoI know you want to think of this is as a lot of data, but this really isn't that much. It'll cost less than a few thousand to keep a copy in glacier on s3, or a single IT dude could build a NAS at his home that could easily hold this data for a few tens of thousands tops. The entire thing.
- nicce 1y agoClose to 1 petabyte for home server is quite much, honestly. It will cost tens of thousands dollars. But yeah, on government level, nothing.
- flufluflufluffy 1y agoDouble-sided?