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Comment by whycome

1 year ago

> If you took a petabyte's worth of 1GB flash drives and lined them up end to end, they would stretch over 92 football fields.

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organsnyder  1 year ago

That's actually a somewhat useful visual.

  • vikingerik  1 year ago

    Not really unless you're using 1 GB flash drives from fifteen years ago. 256 GB is now common, which would make that petabyte less than 1 football field. (It's only 4096 such drives.)

    • ziddoap  1 year ago

      >Not really unless you're using 1 GB flash drives from fifteen years ago

      1GB flash drives are still 1GB today.

      >256 GB is now common, which would make that petabyte less than 1 football field. (It's only 4096 such drives.)

      If we're completely changing what we're using for scale, you can fit a petabyte on ~10 100TB drives, which is like 3% the length of an olympic swimming pool.