[aklug] Re: need a way to communicate 10TB of storage

From: James A. Tweet <JamesTweet@Yahoo.com>
Date: Tue Apr 05 2011 - 18:25:55 AKDT

On Thu, 2011-03-31 at 12:26 -0800, Jason McEachen wrote:
> So a reporter asked me for a way to explain what 10TB of storage is.
>
> Got any cool "conversational analogies" for that amount of data?
>
> I found in various places:
> 800,000 phone books
> 16,000 music CDs
> the library of congress (books)
> 1400 movies (assume 700M)
>
> Thanks for any better illustrations,
>
> --Jason
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If each byte were a dollar bill then 10 terabytes would equal 71% of the
national debt. Also that many dollar bills would weigh about 11 million
tons.

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