How much memory in the world?

Zeste · 04-23-2008, 11:14 AM

I was googling this but couldn't find anything. I was trying to find someone who has estimated how much memory in gigabytes or whatever there is in the world.

I don't know what is more than a Terabyte, but would it be billions of terabytes? More? Less?

Weird to think what % of that is sexual.

kegkilla · 04-23-2008, 11:20 AM

mega, giga, tera, peta, exa, zetta, yotta

^^ that is the sequence of prefixes.

i actually learned this in one of my classes last year, but i have since forgotten. if i had to guess i'd say a few exabytes.

Menoz · 04-23-2008, 11:20 AM

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ChewieTobbacca · 04-23-2008, 11:47 AM

Seagate just made its billionth hard drive I believe

Thats a whole lot of porn

column · 04-23-2008, 12:05 PM

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Originally Posted by kegkilla

mega, giga, tera, peta, exa, zetta, yotta

^^ that is the sequence of prefixes.

i actually learned this in one of my classes last year, but i have since forgotten. if i had to guess i'd say a few exabytes.

They need to change yottabyte to yodabyte or yogurtbyte ( the kids love this one)

Drave · 04-23-2008, 12:11 PM

From a study done at Berkeley in 2000

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The world produces between 1 and 2 exabytes of unique information per year, which is roughly 250 megabytes for every man, woman, and child on earth.

I would guess it's a wee bit more now

edit - another interesting article New Study Forecasts Explosive Growth of the Digital Universe; Spotlights Worldwide Phenomenon of "Digital Shadow"

AladainAF · 04-23-2008, 01:13 PM

10^3 kilobyte
10^6 megabyte
10^9 gigabyte
10^12 terabyte
10^15 petabyte
10^18 exabyte
10^21 zettabyte
10^24 yottabyte
10^27 xonabyte
10^30 wekabyte
10^33 vundabyte
10^36 udabyte
10^39 tredabyte
10^42 sortabyte
10^45 rintabyte
10^48 quexabyte
10^51 peptabyte
10^54 ochabyte
10^57 nenabyte
10^60 mingabyte
10^63 lumabyte <- wtb

Slide · 04-23-2008, 02:19 PM

1 gram of sand = 10 to the power 21 bytes (887,808 petabytes) - the equivalent storage of more than 11 billion typical PCs.

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Slide · 04-23-2008, 02:24 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by AladainAF

10^3 kilobyte
10^6 megabyte
10^9 gigabyte
10^12 terabyte
10^15 petabyte
10^18 exabyte
10^21 zettabyte
10^24 yottabyte
10^27 xonabyte
10^30 wekabyte
10^33 vundabyte
10^36 udabyte
10^39 tredabyte
10^42 sortabyte
10^45 rintabyte
10^48 quexabyte
10^51 peptabyte
10^54 ochabyte
10^57 nenabyte
10^60 mingabyte
10^63 lumabyte <- wtb

in my lifetime of computing storage has increased from 64 kb to 64 gb, and i'd expect 64 tb in the next 5-10 years. I signed for a terabyte disk array around 6 years ago and that was costing almost $500,000. Now it's a couple of hundred dollars.

column · 04-23-2008, 02:33 PM

Yeah but its like leveling in a game. Everything scales to your new level.

apps/games are like 8-15 gigs nows. Media like blueray etc has gotten bigger.
So although it seems like were getting alot more,we really aren't.

AladainAF · 04-23-2008, 03:12 PM

Quote:

apps/games are like 8-15 gigs nows. Media like blueray etc has gotten bigger.
So although it seems like were getting alot more,we really aren't.

Uhh.. Dunno about you but back in the days of 20mb HDDs most apps took about 500k to 700k. You could fit 30-40 or so apps, since the OS (dos) took no space at all. Today with a 1tb HDD, and the average app taking 3-6gb you're looking at 115 to 330 apps, not to mention apps today are extremely feature rich compared to say.. DOS apps.

Zeste · 04-23-2008, 03:27 PM

What got me thinking about this was my AppleTV database of movies. I have just over a terabyte right now, but my friend has 6TB so far... his desk has a nice little row of the black WD Mybook externals.

You can fit around 500 movies for an appleTV on a TB. I don't collect movies just to do it, but he wants to have a virtually complete appleTV library of the last 20 years of movies. It's pretty rad.

Frax · 04-23-2008, 05:57 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Zeste

What got me thinking about this was my AppleTV database of movies. I have just over a terabyte right now, but my friend has 6TB so far... his desk has a nice little row of the black WD Mybook externals.

You can fit around 500 movies for an appleTV on a TB. I don't collect movies just to do it, but he wants to have a virtually complete appleTV library of the last 20 years of movies. It's pretty rad.

Is that in HD or SD?

Blumpster · 04-23-2008, 06:05 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Zeste

What got me thinking about this was my AppleTV database of movies. I have just over a terabyte right now, but my friend has 6TB so far... his desk has a nice little row of the black WD Mybook externals.

You can fit around 500 movies for an appleTV on a TB. I don't collect movies just to do it, but he wants to have a virtually complete appleTV library of the last 20 years of movies. It's pretty rad.

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Zeste · 04-23-2008, 06:56 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Frax

Is that in HD or SD?

all in SD. We don't have a way to rip Blu Ray discs yet.

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kegkilla Sultan of Swingin on niggaz Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: killadelphia Posts: 1,562 -127 Internets	mega, giga, tera, peta, exa, zetta, yotta ^^ that is the sequence of prefixes. i actually learned this in one of my classes last year, but i have since forgotten. if i had to guess i'd say a few exabytes.

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AladainAF Registered User Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Texas Posts: 1,716	10^3 kilobyte 10^6 megabyte 10^9 gigabyte 10^12 terabyte 10^15 petabyte 10^18 exabyte 10^21 zettabyte 10^24 yottabyte 10^27 xonabyte 10^30 wekabyte 10^33 vundabyte 10^36 udabyte 10^39 tredabyte 10^42 sortabyte 10^45 rintabyte 10^48 quexabyte 10^51 peptabyte 10^54 ochabyte 10^57 nenabyte 10^60 mingabyte 10^63 lumabyte <- wtb

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