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So you get a drive that's 1 Petabyte (PB)* big. What would you do with it?
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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) Last edited by Tom Schindler : 29-11-2004 at 21:59. |
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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!
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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. |
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Re: What would you do with 1 PB of drive space?
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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.
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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,
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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"...
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Re: What would you do with 1 PB of drive space?
Well thats easy... I would download everything.
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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!!
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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!
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Re: What would you do with 1 PB of drive space?
Imagine defragging that.
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Re: What would you do with 1 PB of drive space?
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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! |
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