Comment by phatfish

9 days ago

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

Just so we can all visualise this in an understandable way, if laid end-to-end how many times round the world would the A4 sheets go?

And what is their total area in football fields?

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panda-giddiness  9 days ago

Attached end-to-end, they'd extend almost from the Earth to the Sun [1].

Placed in a grid, they'd cover an area larger than Wales [2].

Piled on top of each other, they'd reach a tenth the distance to the moon [3].

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[1] https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=449.5+*10%5E9+*+%28leng...

[2] https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=449.5+*10%5E9+*+%28area...

[3] https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=449.5+*10%5E9+*+%28thic...

ramraj07  8 days ago

I know you want to think of this is as a lot of data, but this really isn't that much. It'll cost less than a few thousand to keep a copy in glacier on s3, or a single IT dude could build a NAS at his home that could easily hold this data for a few tens of thousands tops. The entire thing.

  • nicce  8 days ago

    Close to 1 petabyte for home server is quite much, honestly. It will cost tens of thousands dollars. But yeah, on government level, nothing.

Cthulhu_  8 days ago

I love that people are still trying to put data on A4s and we're long past the point of being able to visualize it.

That said, if I'm ever fuck-you rich, I'm going to have a pyramid built to bury me in and a library of hardcover printed wikipedia.

akpa1  9 days ago

190,813,414 and a bit times round the equator if you place them long edge to long edge