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1. SOURCES
http://www2.sims.berkeley.edu/research/projects/how-muchinfo/datapowers.html
http://www.wu.ece.ufl.edu/links/dataRate/DataMeasurementChart.html
http://www.sizes.com/people/brain.htm
The Essentials of Computer Organization and Architecture
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THE FUTURE OF
DATE STORAGE
THE HOLOGRAM
Being developed as you read this……
Hologram storage has the potential to store 1 TB in a one-centimeter hologram.
Punch Cards
1745
Magnetic Tape
1950’s
Cassette Tape Removable Hard Drive
1963
Punched Tape
1966
Floppy Disk
1971
Zip Drive
Mid 1990’s
USB Flash DriveSD Card
2000 2007
CLOUD
CD
1982
START
HERE
CD-ROM
BLU-RAY
DVD
Breakdown of a common,
household disc data storages:
120mm
in diameter
CDs are divided into
BYTE CHUNKS
CALLED SECTORS
DVDs are divided into
BYTE CHUNKS
CALLED SECTORS
SINGLE LAYER
SINGLE SIDED
DOUBLE LAYER
DOUBLE SIDED
CAN STORE
4.78GB
SINGLE LAYER
SINGLE SIDED
CAN STORE
25GB
CAN STORE
17GB
DOUBLE LAYER
CAN STORE
50GB
ABOUT
READ BY GREEN LASERS
READ BY RED LASERS
READ BY BLUE LASERS
23HOURS
of standard-definition (SD) video
on a 50GB blu-ray disc
Memory capacity of the brain is between
1-10 terabytes, with a most likely value of
3 terabytes
BIT
BYTE
KILOBYTE
MEGABYTE
GIGABYTE
TERABYTE
PETABYTE
EXABYTE
ZETTABYTE
YOTTABYTE
DATA CITY
1956
1980
TIMELINECOST OF DATA
PER
MEGABYTE
PER
GIGABYTE
$90
$10,000
$193
1987
$12
1989
90¢
1995
$19.73
2000
2007
World’s first
TB hard drive
released
31¢
2010
World’s first
TB hard drive
released
8¢
3
1988
$53
1990
$9
1999
2¢
2005
71.9¢
A FILE SIZE OF
CAN ALSO BE EXPRESSED AS
1 GIGABYTE
8,589,934,592 bits
1,073,741,824 bytes
1,048,576 kilobytes
1,024 megabytes
1 gigabyte
0.0009765625 terabytes
0.0000009536 petabytes
0.0000000009 exabytes
BYTE
1 Byte = A single character ('A')
10 Bytes = A single word ('Applesauce')
100 Bytes = Telegram or punch card
1 Kilobyte = A very short story
2 Kilobytes = A typewritten page
10 Kilobytes = Static web page
100 Kilobytes = A low-resolution photograph
200 Kilobytes = A box of punched cards
1 Megabyte = A small novel OR a 3.5 inch floppy disk
5 Megabytes = The complete works of Shakespeare OR 30
seconds of TV-quality video
10 Megabytes = A minute of high-fidelity sound OR a digital
chest X-ray
20 Megabytes = A box of floppy disks
500 Megabytes = A CD-ROM OR the hard disk of a PC
(8 bit)
KILOBYTE
(1,000 bytes OR 10 bytes)3
MEGABYTE
(1,000,000 bytes OR 10 bytes)
1 Gigabyte = A pickup truck filled with paper OR a symphony in
high-fidelity sound OR a movie at TV quality
20 Gigabytes = A good collection of the works of Beethoven OR 5
Exabyte tapes OR a VHS tape used for digital data
50 Gigabytes = A floor of books OR hundreds of 9-track tapes
500 Gigabytes = The biggest FTP (file transfer protocol) site
GIGABYTE(1,000,000,000 bytes OR 10 bytes)
6
9
1 Terabyte = 50,000 trees made into paper and printed
2 Terabytes = An academic research library
10 Terabytes = The printed collection of the US Library of Congress
400 Terabytes = National Climactic Data Center (NOAA) database
TERABYTE(1,000,000,000,000 bytes OR 10 bytes)12
1 Petabyte = 3 years of EOS data (2001)
2 Petabytes = All US academic research libraries
8 Petabytes = All information available on the Web
20 Petabytes = Production of hard-disk drives in 1995
200 Petabytes = All printed material OR production of digital
magnetic tape in 1995
PETABYTE(1,000,000,000,000,000 bytes OR 10 bytes)15
2 Exabytes = Total volume of information generated
worldwide annually
5 Exabytes = All words ever spoken by human beings.
Too big for any application (as of now)
Too big for any application (as of now)
EXABYTE(1,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes OR 10 bytes)18
ZETTABYTE(1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes OR 10 bytes)21
YOTTABYTE(1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes OR 10 bytes)24
DATA STORAGE
From Punch Cards To Holograms