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The One Hundred Trillion Dollars Hard Drive

A yottabyte is one septillion bytes. To save all those bytes you need a data centre as big as the states of Delaware and Rhode Island. It doesn’t seem like much, until they tell you the price tag: $US100 trillion.

How much is $US100 trillion? Too much to imagine but ,to give you some sense of scale, the gross domestic product for the United States was $US14 trillion in 2008. The word GDP: $US61 trillion. And yet, one day we will look back at this figures and shrug, as we order a 4-yottabyte memory card to save a few hours of our life with our 5-senses brain impulse recording device. For $US19.99. [Backblaze]

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    con

    Tuesday, June 8, 2010 at 11:52 AM

    do you guys mind australiafying the us state references ? :)

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      Elly Hart

      Tuesday, June 8, 2010 at 11:56 AM

      Yes, we do mind! :P

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      Dustin

      Tuesday, June 8, 2010 at 12:30 PM

      We don’t have a state small enough. 1/100th of Tasmania?

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      Pete

      Tuesday, June 8, 2010 at 12:43 PM

      Its about:
      4 x the size of the ACT
      12% the size of Tasmania
      3.5% the size of Victoria
      1% the size of NSW
      0.8% the size of South Australia
      0.6% the size of the NT
      0.44% the size of Qld
      0.3% the size of WA

      You lazy gizmodo staff ;)

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    Mat

    Thursday, August 12, 2010 at 12:00 PM

    It’s about 0.0006% of my ability to care

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