Monday, February 2, 2009

Entry: Petabye

Petabytes!

You guys.

Petabytes are huge.

I know the more computer-savvy readers are chortling at my naivete right about now-- and frankly, I'm a little embarrassed that I didn't realize that we were already on the next order of magnitude for data, considering that we just got a 1TB external harddrive-- but my mind is boggled. One million gigabytes. That's a lot of pirated movies.

Speaking of, this little putting-things-in-a-practical-perspective factoid really threw me for a loop: "As of December 2007, YouTube had a datatraffic of 27 petabytes per month." Jesus H. Christ, people, how many times can you watch OK Go jumping around on treadmills?

2 comments:

Pooka said...

Re: OK Go -- apparently 43,624,228. I'm slightly ashamed to admit about 30 of those are me.

Regina said...

Oh I'm not one to judge, I have the album with "Here It Goes Again" on my iPod. ^__^