What would you do with 1 PB of drive space?

[Astronouth7303]

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)

[Tom Schindler]

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)

[Jay H 237]

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

[NoodleKnight]

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.

[Mike Betts]

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

[Aaron Lussier]

Well thats easy... I would download everything.

[Jeff Rodriguez]

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

[Elgin Clock]

Originally Posted by Ogre

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

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

[Testament-Doom]

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!

[evulish]

Imagine defragging that.

[Ashley Weed]

Originally Posted by Mike Betts

In 2010, you will need that much space for the Visual C+++++ executable for "Hello Worldn"...

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

[Wetzel]

Originally Posted by NoodleKnight

Nope, I don't think there is even enough computer stuff in the world to fill that up.

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


Wetzel

[Yan Wang]

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.

[Elgin Clock]

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

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I won't be lost...

[Eugenia Gabrielov]

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!