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> The center will reportedly be able to store five zettabytes worth of information I am sure some day in the future there will be MicroSD cards with this stor
by barredo 13y ago
> The center will reportedly be able to store five zettabytes worth of information
I am sure some day in the future there will be MicroSD cards with this storage capacity. But now it is just mindblowing
~5.500.000.000.000 Gigabytes
- moneyrich2 13y agoWhat if it was a database that stores databases. mindfuck
- DanBC 13y agoThis website makes the unsourced claim about Yottabytes that "You can compare it to the World Wide Web as the entire Internet almost takes up about a Yottabyte." (http://whatsabyte.com/ http://whatsabyte.com/) 1 Zettabyte = 1,073,741,824 terabytes. This Quora answer says that total HD supplied numbers worldwide in 2011 was 6,800,000 units. (http://www.quora.com/How-many-hard-drives-are-produced-each-year http://www.quora.com/How-many-hard-drives-are-produced-each-...) I find the 5 zettabyte figure hard to believe.
- aaronblohowiak 13y agoTapes, not disks.
- DanBC 13y agoAssuming 3:1 compression our 1 zettabyte (or 1,000,000,000 terabytes) of data becomes 333,333,333.33 TB. Using a nice IBM 4 TB tape we need 83,333,333.33 tapes for 1 zettabyte. I still find the 5 zettabyte figure hard to believe. But searching for tape does start producing a lot more government-like language and documents. Knowing that there is a "Summary Of Non Confidential Information On U.S. Magnetic Tape Coating Facilities" makes me want to read the confidential version.