3 terrabytes

[billb]

what can u fit on 3 terrabytes that sounds impressive!! need to do presentation where i say storage has increased to 3 tb which for example could store the whole of ......?

ta!

[GreenV8S]

If you want something to compare it to, the internet archive is growing at around 20TB per month, and that must represent the bulk of the publicly accessible internet. If you want to make it sound impressive you could describe it in terms of hours of high resolution video stored etc, 3TB is probably the equivalent of about 6000 hours of video which is a little over eight months of continuous playback.

Edited by GreenV8S on Sunday 3rd September 17:11

[JamieBeeston]

1 Million Mp3's (assuming a typical mp3 size of 3mb)

assuming 1meg a min (128kbit), that's

3,000,000 minutes of Music
50,000 hours of Music
2083 days of Music
5.7 years of Music 24/7

enjoy.

Edited by JamieBeeston on Sunday 3rd September 17:27

[randlemarcus]

....
Sales colourful, if fictional, projections for the next year, and their OTE projections
Finances grey receivables, and the tracking of the Sales loonies expenses
Marketings image collection, and their ClipArt CD's that they havent used in years
The Boards collection of golf software for their Blackberries that Bob at the club persuaded them were great

And the IT lots collection of dodgy audio and video...just...

[Zad]

Well, first of all, it is Terabytes not Terrabytes

The Tera/Terra thing got me thinking though, 5TB would be enough to digitise the surface of the earth to a resolution of 1 byte every 10x10m - which probably doesn't sound that impressive but gives you an idea of what storage Google Earth needs.

Or, put another way, 3TB is approximately 4400 CDs (that would be 52.8 metres high) or over 700 (single layer) DVDs

Or, if you say that a grain of sugar represents 1 bit, and is 0.5mm cubed, 24 Tera bits would be 15 metres cubed.

Or, get hold of an old full size 10MB MFM hard drive. It is 300,000 of those.

Over 2 million, 3.5in floppy disks. Stacked on top of each other, they would be 6.875km high, or 4 and a quarter miles.

[Pigeon]

Two-thirds of a million Bibles...

[tvrforever]

About 1/15th of my companies' historic daily storage growth, and 1/3rd of our current daily storage rate...

What can you fill it with? lots of 1s & 0s - but make sure not too many of each type or the spindles get out of balance and your capacity harmonics go pumff...

[Plotloss]

600 DVDs or thereabouts

Its possible to get 18Tb (3,600 DVD's in DVD format or 30,000 CDs in WAV format) in a single 3U rackmount chassis (270Tb in a 45U enclosure). [Heat issues aside]

Going on the meg a minute rule of thumb 18Tb would represent 35.25 years of 24/7 music without having to hear the same track twice, 3Tb being 5.7 years.

Or if you went for a rack full almost 530 years of music at a meg a minute...

[mattley]

billb said:

which for example could store the whole of ......?

The clients data set would be a good start.

[jazzybee]

Around 100,000 High Resolution Product images

[greenlandy]

3Tb thats a lot of porn

[dilbert]

greenlandy said:

3Tb thats a lot of porn

And if you're Mary Whitehouse that'd be 3 Terrorbytes o' porn!


Edited to add;

That's a lot of terror!

Edited by dilbert on Sunday 3rd September 21:05

[GreenV8S]

mattley said:

billb said:

which for example could store the whole of ......?

The clients data set would be a good start.

[malman]

You're all missing the point - whatever it can store, it won't be enough once you let users loose on it

[greenlandy]

malman said:

You're all missing the point - whatever it can store, it won't be enough once you let porn abusers loose on it

[billb]

greenlandy said:

3Tb thats a lot of porn

hmmm maybe not the best example to use in a school but i like it!

[roadsweeper]

GreenV8S said:

3TB is probably the equivalent of about 6000 hours of video which is a little over eight months of continuous playback

My God! That's nearly 60% of Anna Nicole Smith's portfolio!