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Comment by lucb1e

9 days ago

> The stored data amounts to 858TB (terabytes), equivalent to 449.5 billion A4 sheets.

This attempt at putting it in perspective makes me wonder what would put it in perspective. "100M sets of harry potter novels" would be one step in the right direction, but nobody can imagine 100M of anything either. Something like "a million movies" wouldn't work because they are very different from text media in terms of how much information is in one, even if the bulk of the data is likely media. It's an interesting problem even if this article's attempt is so bad it's almost funny

Good article otherwise though, indeed a lot more detail than the OP. It should probably replace the submission. Edit: dang was 1 minute faster than me :)

"equivalent to 50 hard drives" ?

  • I don't think many people have 16TB of storage on the hard drives they're familiar with but I take your point nonetheless! Simple solution. I was apparently too focused on the information factor and didn't think of just saying how many of some storage medium it is equivalent to, which makes a lot of sense indeed