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How Big is a Yottabyte? [Infograph]
For those, who dont know how big is a yottabyte is, this infograph will definitely help you.
According to this Infograph, 1 yottabyte costs 100 trillion dollars.
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50 Responses
5.30.2010
already outdated, terabytes drives are 80 and under now and 2 tb drives are under 150 and remain in the 3.5 size
5.30.2010
Neat! :}
5.30.2010
Hey u never know when a new technological breakthru comes in & the prices of these yottabytes comes spiriling down. there was a time when entire Pcs used to run on 4Gbs & now u can buy USB drives of way more giga sizes http://bit.ly/d4JJMI
5.30.2010
My first PC had a 20MB drive that cost around $200 Australian. At that time, the five Terabytes that are on my current PC would have cost one Billion (10^9) dollars.
5.30.2010
We’ll be laughing at this article in 50 years time with our yottabyte iPod nanos in our pockets.
5.30.2010
Remember when they said computers would fill up entire rooms?
5.30.2010
I think I’ve done the math wrong, but AU 1Yb = 500,000,000,000 2tb drives.
Current cheapest price, is in the mid $160AU.
We could assume a price break when you’re buying the entire factory’s output for the forseeable future.
However, lets assume these all exist today, and could be shipped. Lets give a price break to $150AU.
That’s *only* $75,000,000,000,000AU.
Or approximately $63,000,000,000,000US.
Sadly, despite being described as 2tb drives, this ‘yottabyte’ will format down to *only* 930,000,000,000tb (.93yb).
This will be very annoying in any OS when you try to show your friends how much space you have.
Some smart ass will always sit down and figure out that, it isn’t actually a real yottabyte until you spend a few hundred more billion dollars on that extra 70,000,000,000tb.
And parity? haha! Dont even go there.
5.30.2010
Brilliant Calculation Myne !!
5.30.2010
God help us if a yottabyte hard drive fails.
5.30.2010
Interesting how far we’ve come. We can replace all of those with byte, kilobyte, megabyte, gigabyte, terabyte, too. If we go backwards, that means a gig is worth about 10 cents, a meg is about a penny, and a K (and a byte) are essentially worthless.
It took about 15 years for a gig to cost about as much as a meg did. Data storage hit about a dollar a gig in 2008, and it was about a dollar a meg in 1993. I don’t know earlier numbers, but that would mean (in US$) that data was a dollar a K in 1978, and a dollar a byte in 1963. Those seem like reasonable numbers to me.
If we continue that trend, we’ll be paying a dollar for a T in 2023, and a dollar for a yottabyte in 2083.
5.30.2010
Hmmm…. interesting.
5.30.2010
Why just use one when you get can get two at twice the price?
5.30.2010
someday we’ll just gonna laugh about this chart.
5.30.2010
@John Schinker
The first commercial hard drive was IBM’s RAMAC 305 in 1956 which had a whopping 5MB of storage space and was about twice the size of a fridge. How much for that 5MB? Well you had to lease it for $1600 per month. Thats in 1956 dollars, today it would have ran you nearly $13,0000 a month (or to full out purchase $1.3M. That actually works out to about $1.3 per byte, so it looks like that trend isn’t really that far off.
5.30.2010
I thought the Googelbyte was the largest known capacity? Seriously.
5.30.2010
Actually, a yottabyte would be 1024^8 bytes, so the 2TB drives would only format to just under 83 zettabytes. You’d need approximately 21% more drives to reach an even yottabyte. However, since the $100/TB is a little high, it kinda works out alright anyway.
5.30.2010
and thats still smaller than a hellabyte
5.31.2010
see more…
http://bit.ly/d805ZB
5.31.2010
laugh for what???
5.31.2010
If that’s a yotta-byte, how much for a Chewy-byte, or a Jarjar-byte?
5.31.2010
16k of ram was $100 in 1979
5.31.2010
“already outdated, terabytes drives are 80 and under now and 2 tb drives are under 150 and remain in the 3.5 size”
Your post is outdated. 1TB drives are around $50 and 2TB drives are around $100. If you look around, you can get a 1TB for around $40 and a 2TB for around $90.
5.31.2010
http://yottafire.com/2010/03/10/what-is-yotta/
5.31.2010
Believe it or not, I’m an inventor and created a yottabyte drive in my basement.
The funny thing is, I already maxed it out with porn.
6.5.2010
Well I wish to have a Yottabyte iPod for my Music and Movies some day.. Or may be My grandchildrens will..
6.8.2010
@Jeff Desaulniers:
The IBM 305 stored its data in characters. Each character was 8 bits of data, but the 8th bit was always parity, so it was a slightly different concept than today’s bytes. And it was 5,000,000 characters, so it’s not even like it stored 5MB (5*1024*1024).