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a petabyte is a lot of data

DateMonday, October 26, 2009 at 09:04AM
I’m just sayin’…

(Thanks to the folks at the Mozy Blog for this one.)


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Great design, infographics, and typography. Pretty intense statistics as well, but with the rapid increase of technology and HD space, it will be possible in the not too distant future. Many believe that the potential of computer speeds is limitless already, but are holding it back for marketing purposes. I feel there's a grain of truth in it! Thanks for the post
March 5, 2010 | Unregistered CommenterRobin Bastien
160 gigs seems so restrictive right now. Will we ever have such data-intense files that a petabyte, or even larger, is thought of as a gig is today? Dear god.
March 6, 2010 | Unregistered CommenterThe Future looks absolutely awesome.
What I found surprising is the 50 PB figure given for "the entire written works of mankind"... 50 PB seems like a lot for just text files. Are they including the illustrations or what?
March 31, 2010 | Unregistered CommenterChimiChanga
One petabyte... That's alot of porn!
April 6, 2010 | Unregistered CommenterSomeone
How is 2 GB the same as 20 yards of books on a shelf?
April 7, 2010 | Unregistered CommenterAnonymous
it will be useless once they ban piracy, ha.
April 7, 2010 | Unregistered Commenterrobert
We seem to be getting closer and closer to the Library of Ossus each day >_<
April 16, 2010 | Unregistered CommenterElisabethany
That's HUGE! TWSS.
April 20, 2010 | Unregistered CommenterTony
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