23. An Exabyte: What is it?
Exa 1’000’000’000’000’000’000 Books 1/3 *) 20’000 years full HDTV **)
Earth – Sun.
1018 ~ 1 billion years
Books around
Peta 1’000’000’000’000’000 Earth Equator 20 years full HDTV
1015 ~ 1 million years
Data Scale (log)
Library of Congress
Tera 1’000’000’000’000 Large Libary
(50 Km of One week full HDTV
1012 books)
~ 1000 year
Giga 1’000’000’000 Small Library
10 minutes full HDTV
109 (50 Meters of
books)
~ 1 year
Universe Lifetime (years)
Mega Decent Book
1’000’000
(5cm)
106 8 hours
Kilo 1’000 Half page
103 half-a-minute
Raw data rate: 14 Exabytes / day.
*) = 140 books per human on earth. **) ~ 2 minutes of HDTV per human on earth.