Know your Yottabytes from your Terabytes

Capt. Hook · Oct 2, 2013

Ever wondered at the majesty of squeezing the original Elite onto a cassette and making it work? Ever wondered what other levels of information could be put to use with the same amount of information? Well thanks to the BBC, here's a handy guide:

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20130621-byte-sized-guide-to-data-storage

Jack Schitt · Oct 3, 2013

Capt. Hook said:
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20130621-byte-sized-guide-to-data-storage

Nice find.

For visitors from the UK the page can't be accessed due to licensing restrictions, but the infographic itself can be

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbc.com/future/bespoke/bytesized/assets/images/bytesized.png

Cathy · Oct 3, 2013

Handy

Darren Grey · Oct 3, 2013

Pretty cool! Though it disturbs me that some BBC content isn't available from the UK...

The infographic reminds me of a lot of the cool infographics that xkcd features.

Oss133 · Oct 3, 2013

Darren Grey said:
Pretty cool! Though it disturbs me that some BBC content isn't available from the UK...

The infographic reminds me of a lot of the cool infographics that xkcd features.

I agree with that. Why is it not available to the UK?

Out2lunch · Oct 3, 2013

Darren Grey said:
Pretty cool! Though it disturbs me that some BBC content isn't available from the UK...

The infographic reminds me of a lot of the cool infographics that xkcd features.

That's what proxies and VPS's are for...

I just love me some US Netflix...

Patrick_68000 · Oct 3, 2013

Thank you for the link. I liked the "Terabytes" section: Internet traffic:

12 TB for all of 1990
6,3 TB per sec, 2012

jabokai · Oct 3, 2013

Patrick_68000 said:
Thank you for the link. I liked the "Terabytes" section: Internet traffic:

12 TB for all of 1990

6,3 TB per sec, 2012

That's freaky, my NAS has 12Tb!

Patrick_68000 · Oct 3, 2013

jabokai said:
That's freaky, my NAS has 12Tb!

It's probably a NAS from 1990

Beachlight7 · Oct 3, 2013

According to the info-graphic the 3.5" floppy disc is analogue? I thought the computer reading and writing files on it was in digital form.
Also it says Blu-ray is 0.54GB per minute. But Blu-rays were 25GB and could play full length films longer than 50minutes...

Is an eyes light receptors measured in the form of data capacity?