What The Hell Is A Zettabyte?

[mrclose]

The internet has been abuzz about the new facility being built in Bluffdale, Utah.

It will be a Data storage center for The NSA.

It has been reported that the facility will be able to 'accumalate' (and store) 5 Zettabytes of information.

I had no idea of what or how much information was in a Zettabyte so .. I went looking!

This is some of what I found:

As of 2009, the entire World Wide Web was estimated to contain close to 500 exabytes. This is one half zettabyte.

A Zettabyte is roughly equal to 250 billion DVDs or 36 million years of HD video

1 million times the contents of the world’s largest library or 1 billion terabytes.
*That's another story)

A better idea of the Zettabyte: On Google’s how search works feature, the company boasts how their index is well over 100,000,000 gigabytes. That’s 100,000 terabytes!

So figure that there are 1,073,741,824 (that's over one billion) terabytes in a Zeattabyte and .. Well, Even Google has a lot of catching up to do!


According to The Guardian, the term had to be created due to the fact that the total amount of digital content in the world grew by 62 percent last year to a total of 800,000 Petabytes, or 0.8 ZBs.  

As one description I read described it, it is enough information to fill 75 billion iPads … not that there are even that many iPads in the world!

That many ipads stacked one upon another would reach beyond the moon!

I've been talking about this Data Mining/Storage center .. now take a look at it here: http://www.businessinsider.com/pictures-of-the-nsas-utah-data-center-2013-6

Take a gander at those A/C units!

[here]

 Cool; I was too lazy to look it up 

[thundley4]

At least we know where all of our information is being stored.  Obama will have tighter security there than at Fort Knox.

That place will have everything but Obama's college records and birth certificate on file.

[mrclose]

At least we know where all of our information is being stored.  Obama will have tighter security there than at Fort Knox.

That place will have everything but Obama's college records and birth certificate on file.

[Eupher]

And think of the wasteful, inefficient, and completely senseless bureaucracy that's in place at the NSA to organize, sort, and MANAGE all that information. Gotta be $100 billion a year.

And yet our Marines in A-stan are relegated to eating MREs in lieu of a hot meal. 

[DixieBelle]

I know what it is.....a violation of my rights!

[Airwolf]

So now we know where Barry Big Ears will be stashing his gay porn

[mrclose]

The most powerful computer the world has ever known.

That machine, the Titan Supercomputer, is capable of churning through more than 20,000 trillion calculations each second or 20 petaflops. (1 petaflop = 1 quadrillion instructions per second).

(Anyone ever say that The Anti-Christ 'had' to be human?)

[mrclose]

What I wanna know is .. can I get one of these pc's and will it fit on my desktop?

[DefiantSix]

I know what it is.....a violation of my rights!

...Aaand it's less than 10 miles from where I live, and it's fed by OVERHEAD power lines, and it's data comes in to the structure through a finite number of fragile conductors...

And OpSec prevents me from carrying this train of thought any further over an unsecured communications channel.

[here]

What I wanna know is .. can I get one of these pc's and will it fit on my desktop?

It is already on your desktop -you just don't have access ;-)

[Wineslob]

Oh, I thought this was about the hottest woman in the world.