> The center will reportedly be able to store five zettabytes worth of information
I am sure some day in the future there will be MicroSD cards with this storage capacity. But now it is just mindblowing
~5.500.000.000.000 Gigabytes
I am sure some day in the future there will be MicroSD cards with this storage capacity. But now it is just mindblowing
~5.500.000.000.000 Gigabytes
1 Zettabyte = 1,073,741,824 terabytes.
This Quora answer says that total HD supplied numbers worldwide in 2011 was 6,800,000 units.
(http://www.quora.com/How-many-hard-drives-are-produced-each-...)
I find the 5 zettabyte figure hard to believe.
Using a nice IBM 4 TB tape we need 83,333,333.33 tapes for 1 zettabyte.
I still find the 5 zettabyte figure hard to believe.
But searching for tape does start producing a lot more government-like language and documents. Knowing that there is a "Summary Of Non Confidential Information On U.S. Magnetic Tape Coating Facilities" makes me want to read the confidential version.