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>>alden5+(OP)
I have absolutely no idea how that number relates to any comparable operation. Can anyone add a banana for scale?

>>jstumm+ht5
> If you took a petabyte's worth of 1GB flash drives and lined them up end to end, they would stretch over 92 football fields.

https://info.cobaltiron.com/blog/petabyte-how-much-informati...

>>whycom+yw5
That's actually a somewhat useful visual.

>>organs+ux5
Not really unless you're using 1 GB flash drives from fifteen years ago. 256 GB is now common, which would make that petabyte less than 1 football field. (It's only 4096 such drives.)

>>viking+FD5
You can buy a 1TB microSD card for $150 now.

>>dtgris+pG5
What a time to be alive! Even those of us without a football field can lay out huge amounts of data in a straight line.