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.
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
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?
I thought 1000 Gigabytes was a Terrabyte or is that 100?