internet cool?!

Wow this is mind boggling, I can't wrap my head around all those numbers.

i wish there were more articles presented in this fashion. it makes it a lot easier to understand what's going on.

Hey Buddy you done a very great job and i like your way of describing, it is very stunning.
I Found 1. A unit of computer memory or data storage capacity equal to 1,024 terabytes (250 bytes).
2. One quadrillion bytes.

This is amazing, and the comparison between the amount of data processed by Google per day, and the entire written works of mankind, from the beginning of recorded history, in all languages, is amazing too. Google must be repeatedly processing the same information for that to be possible.

Wow, incredible. I wonder if it were in a folder, if it would be called a peta-file. Ha!

Can't wait for the USB flash version...

Ironically I had a teacher in my computers class tell me that " a drive that can run two 256 kB of memory is more than anyone would ever need"

The second drive was what the B drive was used for and there was no such thing as a hard drive available on personal computers.

@Anonymous
Google is indeed processing the same information over and over, the google bots are always scanning web sites for changes and updates. However its not just written stuff google is processing, its working with voice and video and mathmatical data of all kinds.
20 petabytes a day is an amazing amount for sure!

7 minutes of HD video is not 1GB :D

pretty sure 7 minutes of hd video is more then 1 gig

wow that is amazing

Your math is wrong with HD video, it isn't 7 minutes. Uncompressed standard definition video is about a Gig a minute. Uncompressed High Definition at 1080i 59.94 is about 6 GB per minute. Most video environments, use compressed High Definition which is about a 1GB per minute.

Like your style. Mind-boggling information.

The biggest reason for the "Millennium Bug" was the extra disk space needed to hold the extra length of the date data to accommodate the Century information for every date item.

Disk storage was such an expensive part of a company's computer budget that many companies delayed too long before making the investment, continuing to develope systems which were destined to last into the next century without investing in the necessary additional storage.

Were the millennium to occur in, say, the next 5 years then there wouldn't be a problem because storage is now so cheap.

Now i will have somewhere to store all my unread email.

1 terabyte thumbdrive would be norm

the ad reminds me of power thirst because it gets right to the point

Can I upgrade? 250GB doesn't seem that large all of a sudden.

I remember reading last year that a terabyte can store the audio of every conversation you ever had in your entire life. I thought that was amazing, but this is simply mindblowing.

so it's pretty big then?

We won't need to buy it. By the time this comes to market, most computers will be on broadband and connected by optical fibre or wifi-max etc.

We will be uploading everything we create (photos, videos) to cloud servers over the net.

A 'camera' will be a phone, that will take pics and HD video. One device. It will automatically upload everything we record to the net, to save and share.

Everything we want will be on the net, on demand. If you want to view a movie, any movie, it will be available to view at anytime over the net, without the issue of download speeds.