Comment by organsnyder

1 year ago

That's actually a somewhat useful visual.

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.)

  • >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.

  • ...how large is a football field?

    is it supposed to be actual football one or the field for handegg?

    • American Gridiron football, though Rugby League and Rugby Union (two other forms of football) use similar length fields/pitches. An Association Football pitch is almost always longer than a Gridiron field, depending on how you measure (it is typical to exclude the end-zones when measuring a Gridiron field, and while Rugby and Gridiron football have a playable area behind the goal (or try) line, Association Football does not.

      As a side-note Canadian Gridiron football uses a longer field than American Gridiron football, though (measuring between the goal lines) still slightly shorter than a typical Association Football pitch.

      Australian Rules Football is on a field typically longer even than an Association Football pitch, though I don't believe there is a regulation limiting the size.