Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

To: UCANSEE2

That’d be 1 followed by 30 zeros.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yottabyte

I can even begin to get my mind around a trillion, let alone the numbers on that Wiki page.


7 posted on 06/13/2013 1:46:38 PM PDT by Carriage Hill (Guns kill people, pencils misspell words, cars drive drunk & spoons make you fat.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 5 | View Replies ]


To: carriage_hill
That’d be 1 followed by 30 zeros.

That tells us they will be keeping ALL the data on ALL of us for a very long time.

Such storage demands indicate one thing -- long term goal of a virtual police state.

10 posted on 06/13/2013 2:00:23 PM PDT by sand88
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 7 | View Replies ]

To: carriage_hill
That’d be 1 followed by 30 zeros.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yottabyte
I can even begin to get my mind around a trillion, let alone the numbers on that Wiki page.

Not quite; one KB is 1024 (2^10), not 100 (10^3), and one MB is 1024 KB [not 1000] — using that progression when you get into zettabytes you have That is 164,247,122 terabytes of difference. (This is 1024^7 vs 1000^7.) So this data-center has a bit over 164 million terabytes [per zettabyte] just in the measurement error.

That's like saying "Oh, we might be off by 100 light-years or so, no big deal."

16 posted on 06/13/2013 3:06:34 PM PDT by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 7 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson