Fun Facts of Storage

Copyright © 2002 Katrin Becker 1998-2002 Last Modified May 18, 2000 02:09 PM

Fun Facts of Storage

Did you know that:

1 Byte = A single character

1 Kilobyte = A very short story

40 Kilobytes = An average downloaded web page

100 Kilobytes = A low resolution photograph

1 Megabyte = A small novel

20 Megabytes = A box of floppy disks

500 Megabytes = A CD-ROM or a PC's hard drive

1 Gigabyte = A good collection of the works of Beethoven

100 Gigabytes = A floor of academic journals or a large ID-1 digital tape

1 Terabyte = All of the X-ray films in a large technological hospital or 50,000 trees made into paper and printed

3.2 Terabytes = The compressed capacity of the Exabyte 480 8mm Library

10 Terabytes = The printed collection of the US Library of Congress

2 Petabytes = All US academic research journals

200 Petabytes = All printed material in the world

1 Exabyte = 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes

5 Exabytes = All the words ever spoken by humans

Info from Exabyte's Fun Facts of Storage