In the technological landscape, it can be difficult to visualise the magnitude of files we interact with on a daily basis. We hope this visualisation will help you to picture exactly what it is you are dealing with.
LET’S GO1/8 of a byte
A single binary digit. Equal to: 1/8 of a byte.
8 bits
Equal to: A single character such as a letter or a symbol.
1,024 bytes
Equal to: A very short story.
1024 kilobytes
1,048,576 bytes
Equal to: 873 pages of plain text.
The DNA information in a single sperm contains 37.5 MB worth of data
1024 megabytes
1,073,741,824 bytes
Equal to: 341 average-sized digital pictures.
1024 gigabytes
1,099,511,627,776 bytes
Equal to: Forty 25GB Blu-ray discs.
The size of the entire internet in 1997
In a single year, a human's eyes convey 9.4 terabytes of visual information to the brain.
1024 terabytes
1,126,999,418,470,400 bytes
Equal to: Over 900 billion pages of plain text.
The human brain's ability to store memories is equivalent to about 2.5 petabytes of data
Is the amount of data produced in a single minute by the particle collider at CERN
1024 petabytes
1,152,921,504,606,850,000 bytes
Equal to: Over 245 million (4.38GB) DVDs.
Size of the internet now (as approximated by Eric Schmidt)
Is the amount of data that has traversed the internet since its creation
1024 exabytes
1,180,591,620,717,410,000,000 bytes
Equal to: Over 281 trillion MP3 audio files.
1024 zettabytes
1,208,925,819,614,630,000,000,000
Equal to: Over 45 trillion Blu-ray discs.
Now you have a better idea of the relationships
between different data sizes, why not share with your
friends to enlighten them too?
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