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Holeeee Crap!!!    :186- :186- :186- :186-

Take a look at this:

http://blog.backblaze.com/2009/09/01/petabytes-on-a-budget-how-to-build-cheap-cloud-storage/ (http://blog.backblaze.com/2009/09/01/petabytes-on-a-budget-how-to-build-cheap-cloud-storage/)

I wonder how many songs you can store with that?..... :96-

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1 Petabyte = 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes

Avg. MP3 = 3MB 3,000,000 bytes

Total of 333,333,333,333 songs

And something else of interest
http://pcbunn.cithep.caltech.edu/presentations/giod_status_sep97/tsld013.htm (http://pcbunn.cithep.caltech.edu/presentations/giod_status_sep97/tsld013.htm)

Not to pick nits, but you have three extra zeros on your peta, and they're dripping on my Falafel. :96-


1 Petabyte (rounded, as opposed to the precise power of 2) is 1 quadrillion bytes, or 1 x 10¹⁵. By the same math as above, that's roughly 333 million songs. I'd post the precise power of 2, but there's no point, since drive manufacturers have been short-changing the public for as long as consumer hard drives have been on the market. :37- The bigger the drives get, the larger the discrepancy. :81-

What you described above would be an exabyte. We'll be there soon enough, so we all might as well get comfortable with all the "new" terminology. :72-

I always get carried away with zeros.. wish the bank would from time to time

So do I !! The only problem is that sooner or later they'd ask for them back.. with interest, natrually.