1 Petabyte could hold approximately 20 million 4-door filing cabinets full of text. It could hold 500 billion pages of standard printed text. It would take about 500 million floppy disks to store the same amount of data.
1 bit: a binary decision
1 byte: a character
5 Megabytes: The complete works of Shakespeare
2 Gigabytes: 20 meters of shelved books
10 Terabytes: The printed collection of the US Library of Congress
20 Petabytes: All the photographs on Face Book
200 Petabytes: All printed material
530 Petabytes:All video on You Tube
5 Exabytes: All words ever spoken by human beings
OK, OK.
For the musicianly impaired think of it this way:
The William Tell Overture from the Stanley Kubrick film Clock Work Orange, as played in slow motion.
OK, try this:
2/2 or “cut time" equal to SB=1,125,899,906,842,624 bytes -- 10245, or 250.
Oh never mind! Just think Tacit!
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