02-24-2024, 03:47 AM
TheTominator wrote:
[quote=Tiangou]
"An array of HHD drives that could fit a petabit of data would be about 200 centimeters high. An equivalent array of Blu-Ray storage would be over 2 meters high..."
Yeah, but can't they compare it to something that we can grasp?
What would it be in terms of station wagons full of magnetic tapes?
Ooh!
Okay, so a LTO-8 12/30TB tape holds about 16-18TB. (Marketers call it 30TB.)
125/18=7 tapes.
That's less fun.
Hmm...
Let's go old-school...
A classic Zip cartridge holds 100MB.
125,000GB is 125,000,000MB... Easy conversion to 1,250,000 Zip cartridges.
A Zip cartridge is 6mm tall.
That's a stack 7,500,000mm tall or a 7,500 meter stack of Zip cartridges. (24,606 feet.)
Haven't found a good source for the interior volume of a Buick Wagon (circa 1996, contemporary with Iomega Zip)... But I found the exterior dimensions.
Let's say you wanted to make a few solid scale models of the wagon from your 1,250,000 spare Zip cartridges. (Got to use them for something and they're all gonna have "click of death" anyway...)
A Zip cartridge is (97 x 98 x 6mm) or about (3.82*3.85*0.2) 2.94 cubic inches. The volume of 1,250,000 Zip cartridges would be 3,675,000 cu inches.
The Buick Roadmaster Wagon has exterior dimensions of 217.5 x 79.9 x 60.3 inches or about 1,047,908 cubic inches.
3,675,000/1,047,908 = 3.5 model station wagons made from your used Zip cartridges.
A stack of 3.5 full-scale model Buick Roadmaster Wagons would be about 17.6 feet tall. (About 5.4 meters.)
(You can tell I'm a bit bored tonight.
)Check my math?