Thread: Interesting Facts About Petabyte

Interesting Facts About Petabyte

1. History: According to Kevin Kelly in The New York Times, "the entire [written] works of humankind, from the beginning of recorded history, in all languages" would amount to 50 petabytes of data.
2. Computer hardware: Teradata Database 12 has a capacity of 50 petabytes of compressed data.
3. Internet: Google processes about 24 petabytes of data per day.
Telecoms: AT&T has about 19 petabytes of data transferred through their networks each day.
4. Physics: The 4 experiments in the Large Hadron Collider will produce about 15 petabytes of data per year, which will be distributed over the LHC Computing Grid.
5. P2P networks: As of October 2009, Isohunt has about 9.76 petabytes of files contained in torrents indexed globally.
6. Archives: The Internet Archive contains about 3 petabytes of data, and is growing at the rate of about 100 terabytes per month as of March, 2009.
7. Games: World of Warcraft utilizes 1.3 petabytes of storage to maintain its game.
8. Film: The 2009 movie Avatar is reported to have taken over 1 petabyte of local storage at Weta Digital for the rendering of the 3D CGI effects.



* 1 PB means 1048576 GB

Originally Posted by gaggan4392

Interesting Facts About Petabyte

1. History: According to Kevin Kelly in The New York Times, "the entire [written] works of humankind, from the beginning of recorded history, in all languages" would amount to 50 petabytes of data.
2. Computer hardware: Teradata Database 12 has a capacity of 50 petabytes of compressed data.
3. Internet: Google processes about 24 petabytes of data per day.
Telecoms: AT&T has about 19 petabytes of data transferred through their networks each day.
4. Physics: The 4 experiments in the Large Hadron Collider will produce about 15 petabytes of data per year, which will be distributed over the LHC Computing Grid.
5. P2P networks: As of October 2009, Isohunt has about 9.76 petabytes of files contained in torrents indexed globally.
6. Archives: The Internet Archive contains about 3 petabytes of data, and is growing at the rate of about 100 terabytes per month as of March, 2009.
7. Games: World of Warcraft utilizes 1.3 petabytes of storage to maintain its game.
8. Film: The 2009 movie Avatar is reported to have taken over 1 petabyte of local storage at Weta Digital for the rendering of the 3D CGI effects.



* 1 PB means 1048576 GB

How much does it cost???

1PB pen drive???

Originally Posted by mickey

How much does it cost???

1PB pen drive???

It will be in crores......