What Is A Petabyte?

13.3 years of HDTV content, that’s approximately 58,292 movies, which means an equal number of large pizzas. So one petabyte equals 52 tonnes of pepperoni pizza. Yes, my head has assploded. For more serious equivalents, check the graphic. [Mozy]

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    Bryan Lee

    Friday, July 10, 2009 at 2:26 AM

    Very, very NICE typography there…

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    Phil

    Friday, July 17, 2009 at 12:34 PM

    Someone has WAY too much time on their hands!

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    Stew

    Monday, July 20, 2009 at 4:06 PM

    If you wanna get technical (and correct) using international SI units, a gigabyte is 1000MB, not 1024MB, etc etc

    1MB = 1000KB
    1GB = 1000MB
    1TB = 1000GB
    1PB = 1000TB

    which is why your 1TB HDD only holds ~931MB data according to Windows (since Windows uses units of 1024, not 1000). Confusing and annoying figuring out who uses what!

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      Jackie

      Monday, April 18, 2011 at 10:52 AM

      Except, you would be wrong.

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    Obuks

    Saturday, November 21, 2009 at 1:27 AM

    Very usefull information. thank you, this is very good use of time

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