The world produces between 1 and 2 exabytes of unique information per year, which is roughly 250 megabytes for every man, woman, and child on earth. An exabyte is a billion gigabytes, or 1018 bytes. Printed documents of all kinds comprise only .003% of the total. This from a how much information study at Berkeley.
Great link. Really informative. Those are some mind blowing numbers. I didn't see any discussion of the problem I've been thinking about recently, which stems from the fact that while disk space is clearly increasing at a phenomenal rate, disk transfer speeds are not. How do you back up an exabyte hard disk if the transfer speed is only 50 mb/sec? I'm sure "they" will work it out, but I can't see how at this point.
Here's a link to a story about a company that claims to have mapped the entire internet. Unlike your link, this one is a little short on details, but it has some interesting numbers about the explosive growth of info on the net (especially pornography.)
Your company must generate a lot of data. Do you store all the old stuff? If so, do you know how big the database is?
we save everything, sure. i'll try to find out. figure we get around 75,000 stories in per day, plus we are trying to integrate bell & howell's archives, which are HUGE.
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- linda 10-23-2000 3:19 pm
Great link. Really informative. Those are some mind blowing numbers. I didn't see any discussion of the problem I've been thinking about recently, which stems from the fact that while disk space is clearly increasing at a phenomenal rate, disk transfer speeds are not. How do you back up an exabyte hard disk if the transfer speed is only 50 mb/sec? I'm sure "they" will work it out, but I can't see how at this point.
Here's a link to a story about a company that claims to have mapped the entire internet. Unlike your link, this one is a little short on details, but it has some interesting numbers about the explosive growth of info on the net (especially pornography.)
Your company must generate a lot of data. Do you store all the old stuff? If so, do you know how big the database is?
- jim 10-23-2000 4:50 pm [add a comment]
we save everything, sure. i'll try to find out. figure we get around 75,000 stories in per day, plus we are trying to integrate bell & howell's archives, which are HUGE.
- linda 10-24-2000 1:14 am [add a comment]