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Jul
How Much is 12 Terabytes?
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In recent news, Viacom sues YouTube for $1 billion USD over videos that violate copyrighted material. A federal judge ordered Google to turn over all user records—information about every video every user has watched—to Viacom. That’s 12 terabytes of information!
Neatorama wrote a post titled What Do 12 Terabytes-Worth of Data Look Like.
- Capacity of 9.6 human brains
- 61.4 200 GB hard disks
- 2,615 DVDs
- 19,358 CDs
- 1 million phone books
- 5.3 billion typewritten pages
On a side note, Shanghai Tech Writer is hosted on BlueHost. Recently BlueHost upgraded all accounts to unlimited hosting space. Previous to the upgrade, everyone had 1,000 GB of hosting space. That’s 1 terabyte of web space that no one is ever going to use up. And now, sky is the limit.
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