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1.2 million gigabytes ... doesn't seem all that radical. Bigger than my home storage, but only by 500 times. I also have RAID and remote backups with provable e

1.2 million gigabytes ... doesn't seem all that radical. Bigger than my home storage, but only by 500 times. I also have RAID and remote backups with provable error protection.

zachrose 12y ago
I wonder where it comes from. I would guess that it's a few small works like software and games, and then a lot of high-res digital transfers of films, scans of 2-D work, and photos of sculptures and installations.
- mcantelon 12y ago
  Some of it's 4K video I think.
  - zachrose 12y ago
    For sure. I wouldn't be surprised if they had 8K scans of some things, too. I would be curious how much compression their archival system does on top of whatever original format was used.
    - sp332 12y ago
      FFV1 has been gaining popularity as an archival (lossless) video codec. It gets about 2:1 compression. I would guess that higher-res scans would compress better because neighboring pixels would look more similar, but I haven't seen any actual data supporting that. Lossless audio codecs like FLAC also get about 2:1 compression, so I'd use that as a rule of thumb for archival audio & video in general.