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> 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+(OP)
That's actually a somewhat useful visual.

>>organs+W
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+77
You can buy a 1TB microSD card for $150 now.

>>dtgris+R9
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.

>>danpar+Xb
dang I can hear the youtube channel voice

>>viking+77
>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.

>>viking+77
...how large is a football field?

is it supposed to be actual football one or the field for handegg?

>>NooneA+0N
American Gridiron football, though Rugby League and Rugby Union (two other forms of football) use similar length fields/pitches. An Association Football pitch is almost always longer than a Gridiron field, depending on how you measure (it is typical to exclude the end-zones when measuring a Gridiron field, and while Rugby and Gridiron football have a playable area behind the goal (or try) line, Association Football does not.

As a side-note Canadian Gridiron football uses a longer field than American Gridiron football, though (measuring between the goal lines) still slightly shorter than a typical Association Football pitch.

Australian Rules Football is on a field typically longer even than an Association Football pitch, though I don't believe there is a regulation limiting the size.