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The DVD makes a comeback?
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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. Smile )

Check my math?
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Messages In This Thread
The DVD makes a comeback? - by gadje - 02-21-2024, 06:32 PM
Re: The DVD makes a comeback? - by gabester - 02-21-2024, 07:25 PM
Re: The DVD makes a comeback? - by ztirffritz - 02-21-2024, 07:40 PM
Re: The DVD makes a comeback? - by Tiangou - 02-21-2024, 11:08 PM
Re: The DVD makes a comeback? - by jonny - 02-22-2024, 03:22 AM
Re: The DVD makes a comeback? - by gabester - 02-22-2024, 03:05 PM
Re: The DVD makes a comeback? - by Tiangou - 02-22-2024, 04:15 PM
Re: The DVD makes a comeback? - by TheTominator - 02-24-2024, 01:53 AM
Re: The DVD makes a comeback? - by Tiangou - 02-24-2024, 03:47 AM
Re: The DVD makes a comeback? - by Schpark - 02-26-2024, 05:46 PM

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