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  Monday, May 23, 2005


What is One Terabyte  ( on technology)

More and more, we are getting to work with more customers who request and need one terabyte systems.  Lest we forget how big really a terabyte is, here is a good way to visualize it in vivid words.  It is -

- storage for 125,000 MP3 songs, or 1500 CDs.

- equal to a 1.42 mile-high stack of 1.44 floppies

- 2 weeks, 2 days, 19 hours, and 12 mins. of continuous DVD movies

- if 1 byte is represented by 1 sheet of paper, it's a stack of paper 66,000 miles high.

- if 1 byte represented 1 heartbeat, it's 2 minutes, 24 seconds worth of all the human heartbeats on earth.

- 8,000 times more data than a human brain retains in a lifetime.

- if 1 byte represented 1 grain of sand, it's enough sand to fill a 240 ton mining truck.

 


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