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Technology => New Inventions => Topic started by: AGelbert on March 17, 2017, 02:12:53 pm

Title: Digital Storage
Post by: AGelbert on March 17, 2017, 02:12:53 pm
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How big is a petabyte, exabyte or yottabyte? What’s the biggest byte for that matter? ???


Tibi Puiu March 17, 2017

SNIPPET:

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In less than ten years flash card storage has increased 1,000 fold. Credit: Computer World.

Thirty years ago, back in 1983, the biggest hard drives stored about 10MB of data. That’s barely enough to store two or three .mp3 tracks. Now, a typical notebook has one terabyte of storage or nearly 100,000 times more but even this is figure is laughable when you consider how much data we’re generating. According to IBM, every day we’re creating 2.5 quintillion bytes of data and 90% of today’s digital data was created in the last two years.