{"id":1409,"date":"2020-09-08T07:41:15","date_gmt":"2020-09-08T11:41:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tech2.mountdesales.net\/?p=1409"},"modified":"2024-09-04T14:20:53","modified_gmt":"2024-09-04T18:20:53","slug":"how-big-is-your-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tech.mountdesales.net\/?p=1409","title":{"rendered":"How big is your data?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

It’s tricky to visualize how much room a digital file takes up. Even though they are intangible, those files still fill up your allotted storage, whether that be your cloud storage, thumb drive, hard drive, SSD…. whatever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Perhaps it would help to think of data in terms of rice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1 byte = one grain of rice<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1 Kilobyte = 1 cup of rice<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1 Megabyte = 8 bags of rice<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1 Gigabyte = 3 container trucks [see picture below<\/em>]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1 Terabyte = 2 container ships [see picture below<\/em>]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1 Petabyte = covers Manhattan<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1 Exabyte = covers the UK three times over<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1 Zettabyte = fills the Pacific Ocean<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A Container truck:<\/p>\n\n\n

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A Container Ship:<\/p>\n\n\n

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Originally seen on Facebook, credited to David Wellman @ Myriad Genetics<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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