That's more than double the picture and video data stored on Facebook, and more than 100 times the data in all the print collections in all US academic and research libraries combined.



http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbc.com/future/bespoke/bytesized/assets/images/bytesized.png


What's your favorite fact from the info graphic? What shocked you the most?

[Edited on July 25, 2013 at 1:57 PM. Reason : ]

7/25/2013 1:51:06 PM

tl;dr

7/25/2013 1:53:23 PM

stuff can be small

Im krallum and I approved this message

7/25/2013 1:57:51 PM

and all of it on a floppy...

7/25/2013 1:59:51 PM

^yours might be floppy, but mine's usually on a hard

7/25/2013 4:32:40 PM

mine's on a micro sd

7/25/2013 4:34:05 PM

this is really cool. nice post

7/25/2013 4:35:07 PM

It's all moving to the cloud, right?

7/25/2013 5:36:10 PM

Seeding clouds?

7/25/2013 5:37:29 PM

isn't this just the same 2 GB file, though, copied over and over to millions of tiny little hard drives?

I mean, I guess if you copied a 1 GB file onto a million different hard drives, that would be...it would be fucking stupid, really.

I mean, I appreciate the thread and the central thesis is kind of baller, but it's diminished by the fact that there's such colossal redundancy in this data-set.

7/25/2013 9:14:24 PM

Imagine what dedupe would do to your sperm count.

7/25/2013 9:15:56 PM

lol, interesting study

7/25/2013 9:21:15 PM

Quote :

"Imagine what dedupe would do to your sperm count."

Pretty much what I came here to post

7/25/2013 9:42:54 PM

It's just a ton of copies of the same data. We could store it way more efficiently with a single copy and an index for the number.

7/25/2013 9:49:54 PM

yottabyte pls

7/25/2013 10:06:40 PM

So the point here is that dna can store a bunch of data?

7/25/2013 11:20:14 PM

So the best data storage device created by man is the reservoir tip.

7/25/2013 11:21:34 PM

^Just won this thread. GG, sir.

7/25/2013 11:46:57 PM

actually it was the sperm that won this thread

we were lookin' for speeerm

7/27/2013 11:41:40 PM

It's not duplicate copies, fools. Every sperm is genetically different.

7/28/2013 12:46:32 PM

brb gotta transfer 150,000 TB onto this fly honey

7/28/2013 7:17:37 PM

Fuck... I just got some data in my eye ...

7/28/2013 7:21:25 PM

I just did a high speed transfer all over these fine bitchs

7/29/2013 12:44:46 AM

yeah and in 9 months they will transfer you back the data multiplied thousands of times over

7/29/2013 1:58:32 AM

and I'm totally fine with that

7/29/2013 1:59:12 AM