What would you do with 1 PB of drive space?
 

So you get a drive that's 1 Petabyte (PB)* big. What would you do with it? ;)

*Petabyte=1,000 TB=1,000,000 GB=1,000,000,000 MB (see http://www.rfcafe.com/references/mat...l_prefixes.htm for more)

Re: What would you do with 1 PB of drive space?
 

i'd download the internet!

or maybe i'd probably partition it and give some to the homeless...

just to give an idea... 1 PB is:

800,000 days (over 2000 years) of 128kbit audio (MP3, AAC, WMA, doesn't really matter)
72,000 days (almost 200 years) of uncompressed CD-grade audio
8,000 days (22 years) of uncompressed 96k/24bit 5-channel audio
40,000 days (110 years) of 1 GB/hour TiVo basic-grade MPEG2 video
10,000 days (27 years) of 4 GB/hour TiVo best-grade MPEG2 video
5,000 days (almost 14 years) of ATSC compressed HDTV
3500 days (almost 10 years) of video from a DV video camera (they don't compress well)
200,000 DVD-R disks
50,000 double-sided, double-layer DVDs
1,000 hours (almost 6 straight weeks) of uncompressed HDTV video
7.3 million raw images from Canon 1Ds camera (15 MB each)

Re: What would you do with 1 PB of drive space?
 

I'd hate to see one of those crash. Just imagine the amount of data you'd lose! :eek:

Re: What would you do with 1 PB of drive space?
 

I wonder how long it takes to reformat that thing...

I'd probably do nothing but use the first few hundred gigs of hard drive space, I can fill harddrives fast but one petabyte? Nope, I don't think there is even enough computer stuff in the world to fill that up.

Re: What would you do with 1 PB of drive space?
 

In 2010, you will need that much space for the Visual C+++++ executable for "Hello World\n"... :D

Re: What would you do with 1 PB of drive space?
 

Well thats easy... I would download everything.

Re: What would you do with 1 PB of drive space?
 

Create a text file and start pressing 1 as fast as I can, until I have the largest fiLE EVER!!! MUAHAHA!!

Re: What would you do with 1 PB of drive space?
 

Hey Jeff, ever heard of : www.holdthebutton.com ?

Re: What would you do with 1 PB of drive space?
 

Hmmmmmmmmm.... Well, I'd just slush all the games I could on my comp, make my computer 100x better, and......yeah, I'd be pwning!

Re: What would you do with 1 PB of drive space?
 

Imagine defragging that.

Re: What would you do with 1 PB of drive space?
 

Oh no, programming will be the death of me and my machine. :(

Re: What would you do with 1 PB of drive space?
 

There is definitely enough data in the world to fill that up. Ask Dave about the quantity of data NASA has.


Wetzel

Re: What would you do with 1 PB of drive space?
 

I would sell the hard drives that make up the 1PB and just save a few hundred gigs for myself. I'd then take the money and buy the best computer parts available.

Re: What would you do with 1 PB of drive space?
 

I would have it automatically archive CD for me so in case I get this error again,

I won't be lost...
:rolleyes:

Re: What would you do with 1 PB of drive space?
 

Here's how I'd alot it:

A lot of DDR. Yah!
A lot of musics. Yum yum yum yum.
Loads and loads of pictures.
I'd make a matrix.
YAH!

and Elgin? Taht hold the button game is great! I beat 30.7 of users!