>To put 580 terabytes in perspective, it’s roughly the equivalent of 120,000 DVDs or 786,977 CDs — IBM notes that stacking that many CDs would result in a tower 3,097 feet (944m) tall, or taller than Burj Kalifa, the world’s tallest building.
How many CDs can you stack on top each other before the one at the bottom fails?
Is that just the media or the media + protective jewel cases?