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What’s a Petabyte? Can you wrap your mind around this?

Posted by Patrick Curl on 9 July, 2009
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If bytes were dollars, then a Petabyte would be the equivalent of a Trillion Dollars.

While it’s not very conceivable that any of us will ever be Trillionaires – Owning a Petabyte is another story. A PetaByte is the equivalent of 1000 Terabytes(Don’t crap in your pants…yet). Now you might not even know what a Terabyte is so I’m going to tell you what a Terabyte is: A terabyte is 1000 Gigabytes.

Which means that a Petabyte is 1,048,576 gigabytes. Now what is that in terms of Data? How about 13 years of HD TV nonstop! That’s 209,715,200 songs (if you even know that many songs I truly admire you). Maybe you can wrap your mind around 10 Billion Images on Facebook that’s a Petabyte.

(Now you can commence crapping in your pants, hopefully you’re wearing ‘Oops I Crapped my Pants’ an SNL product)

Now what if you could own a Petabyte harddrive for only $700? (It will be a reality before long) Heck I’d settle for a 200 terabyte hard drive lol  – I’m not greedy.

Here’s a nice visual that I found on Gizmodo which they found via Mozy.

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  • As it says in your graphic, it's not 1000xbtes, but 1024. [/pedant]

    ...and lots of (big) businesses use high capacity disks that used Terrabytes of data ten years ago, so a petabyte here and there is not really a big deal.
  • RE 1000 vs 1024 - it's close enough, I was rounding. In relation to money a Billion now adays is the new million, sure - but a Trillion is too vast to even wrap our minds around - yet countries are spending trillions of dollars yearly or every few years. Our country has a debt of 10 trillion...

    Some numbers are just too much to wrap our minds around. I can't even imagine how I could fill a 1 Petabyte harddrive with - I mean 13 years of nonstop HD high quality movies... It's pretty amazing. I can easily fill up a Terabyte - not sure about Petabyte
  • We have to ready to entry petabyte in the next next year.
  • It's amazing to see the difference between how much 1GB has changed during just a few years. Again though, it's still difficult to imagine 1 Petabyte.
  • Wow!
    Thanks for letting us know! I never heard of Petabyte in the past!
  • Nice information. Peta byte is really a huge collection of database.
  • Great post !
  • For some reason I thought a terabyte was equivalent to a trillion. i.e. 1000 billion? Surely a petabyte is 1000 trillion?
  • I thought 1000 Gigabytes was a Terrabyte or is that 100?
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