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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
>Not really unless you're using 1 GB flash drives from fifteen years ago

1GB flash drives are still 1GB today.

>256 GB is now common, which would make that petabyte less than 1 football field. (It's only 4096 such drives.)

If we're completely changing what we're using for scale, you can fit a petabyte on ~10 100TB drives, which is like 3% the length of an olympic swimming pool.