0EPII1 All American 42535 Posts user info edit post |
That's more than double the picture and video data stored on Facebook, and more than 100 times the data in all the print collections in all US academic and research libraries combined.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbc.com/future/bespoke/bytesized/assets/images/bytesized.png
What's your favorite fact from the info graphic? What shocked you the most?
[Edited on July 25, 2013 at 1:57 PM. Reason : ] 7/25/2013 1:51:06 PM |
Førte All American 23525 Posts user info edit post |
tl;dr 7/25/2013 1:53:23 PM |
Krallum 56A0D3 15294 Posts user info edit post |
stuff can be small
Im krallum and I approved this message 7/25/2013 1:57:51 PM |
mildew Drunk yet Orderly 14177 Posts user info edit post |
and all of it on a floppy... 7/25/2013 1:59:51 PM |
xvang All American 3468 Posts user info edit post |
^yours might be floppy, but mine's usually on a hard 7/25/2013 4:32:40 PM |
Smath74 All American 93277 Posts user info edit post |
mine's on a micro sd 7/25/2013 4:34:05 PM |
jackleg All American 170957 Posts user info edit post |
this is really cool. nice post 7/25/2013 4:35:07 PM |
Mr. Joshua Swimfanfan 43948 Posts user info edit post |
It's all moving to the cloud, right? 7/25/2013 5:36:10 PM |
0EPII1 All American 42535 Posts user info edit post |
Seeding clouds? 7/25/2013 5:37:29 PM |
JeffreyBSG All American 10165 Posts user info edit post |
isn't this just the same 2 GB file, though, copied over and over to millions of tiny little hard drives?
I mean, I guess if you copied a 1 GB file onto a million different hard drives, that would be...it would be fucking stupid, really.
I mean, I appreciate the thread and the central thesis is kind of baller, but it's diminished by the fact that there's such colossal redundancy in this data-set. 7/25/2013 9:14:24 PM |
ncsuapex SpaceForRent 37776 Posts user info edit post |
Imagine what dedupe would do to your sperm count. 7/25/2013 9:15:56 PM |
JLCayton All American 2715 Posts user info edit post |
lol, interesting study 7/25/2013 9:21:15 PM |
BIGcementpon Status Name 11318 Posts user info edit post |
Quote : | "Imagine what dedupe would do to your sperm count." |
Pretty much what I came here to post 7/25/2013 9:42:54 PM |
disco_stu All American 7436 Posts user info edit post |
It's just a ton of copies of the same data. We could store it way more efficiently with a single copy and an index for the number. 7/25/2013 9:49:54 PM |
BubbleBobble :3 114219 Posts user info edit post |
yottabyte pls 7/25/2013 10:06:40 PM |
AndyMac All American 31922 Posts user info edit post |
So the point here is that dna can store a bunch of data? 7/25/2013 11:20:14 PM |
Mr. Joshua Swimfanfan 43948 Posts user info edit post |
So the best data storage device created by man is the reservoir tip. 7/25/2013 11:21:34 PM |
richthofen All American 15758 Posts user info edit post |
^Just won this thread. GG, sir. 7/25/2013 11:46:57 PM |
BubbleBobble :3 114219 Posts user info edit post |
actually it was the sperm that won this thread
we were lookin' for speeerm 7/27/2013 11:41:40 PM |
The Coz Tempus Fugitive 25668 Posts user info edit post |
It's not duplicate copies, fools. Every sperm is genetically different. 7/28/2013 12:46:32 PM |
BubbleBobble :3 114219 Posts user info edit post |
brb gotta transfer 150,000 TB onto this fly honey 7/28/2013 7:17:37 PM |
EMCE balls deep 89740 Posts user info edit post |
Fuck... I just got some data in my eye ... 7/28/2013 7:21:25 PM |
BubbleBobble :3 114219 Posts user info edit post |
I just did a high speed transfer all over these fine bitchs 7/29/2013 12:44:46 AM |
0EPII1 All American 42535 Posts user info edit post |
yeah and in 9 months they will transfer you back the data multiplied thousands of times over 7/29/2013 1:58:32 AM |
BubbleBobble :3 114219 Posts user info edit post |
and I'm totally fine with that 7/29/2013 1:59:12 AM |