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

From: <bryanm@acsalaska.net>
Date: Sun Apr 10 2011 - 19:20:55 AKDT

On Thu, March 31, 2011 12:26 pm, 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,

A 900-page book written by each man, woman, and child on Earth.

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Bryan Medsker
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