This is from the BeOS bible:
"How big was that file again=3F
Trying to visualise the size of an 18,000-petabyte file is like trying
to wrap your mind around the U.S. national debt - it's almost
inconceivably huge. The average hard drive shipping in the average
high-end consumer system at the time of this writing (sic. 1998) was
6GB. If it were 1,000 times larger, it would be 6 terabytes. One
thousand times larger than that and it would be 6 petabytes. One
thousand times larger than that and it would be 6,000 petabytes. Three
times larger than that and it would be 18,000 petabytes, or equal to
the maximum size for a file that can be stored on a BeOS volume. Thus,
BeOS can store a single file that's 1,000 x 1,000 x 1,000 x 3, or
3,000,000,000, or three billion times larger that today's "large" hard
drive.
To put it in perspective another way, consider the facts (sic. =3F) put
forth in a rather speculative essay in Scientific American, July 1998.
In this piece, the authors attempt to quantify the sum total - in bytes
- of humanity's recorded information. It's estimated that the ancient
library at Alexandria contained 600,000 scrolls, equal to around 50,000
of today's books. The Library of Congress contains around 20,000,000
books, worth a total of around 20 terabytes in raw data, plus several
petabytes of audio data. Humans create around 100 terabytes per year
in new books and newspapers, while a cetury's worth of movies add about
a petabyte to the running total. Throw in 50 billion of our family
snapshots every year, and you add around 10 more petabytes since the
dawn of the camera. Television contributes around 100 petabytes per
year, and telephony several thousand petabytes annually. Note here
that not everything on this list is recorded in a retrievable form. In
fact, subtract the telephony part, and the sum total of humanity's
recorded data amounts to around 100 petabytes - a fraction of the data
your BeOS system could easily store in a single file."
Not an add for the BeOS (any 64 bit file system would be the same),
just to illustrate that someone out there has thought about this...
>
>lol someone has a lot of time on their hands ;)
>
>A thing I would like to reflect on:
>
>quore:
>6) A PADD has dimensions of 10x15x1 centimeter and a total
>memory capacity of
>4.3 kiloquads (that is, 4.3 times the total information
>stored on Earth)
>----------
>
>Now is the above JUST the digitized info, or is that all
>info that ever was =3F If it is all info that ever was the
>info seems like a low estimate. One kiloquad doesnt seem
>like ample storage for:
>
>1) All books ever writen (and I do mean ALL) in every
>language
>2) All audio songs/recordings ever produced/existed around
>teh world
>3) All computer programs (OSes and apps) that were ever
>made for all platforms
>4) All broadcasts and movies ever made (film strip, 8mm,
>16mm, 32mm VHS, beta, SVHS, VHS-C, DVD, 3/4", VCD, SVCD and
>whatever other video format) globally --> In high
>definition format, like DVD.
>5) All spoken tradiotions globally
>6) All scientific knowledge in every language out there.
>7) All web sites that ever existed with all their updates.
>8) All technical knowledge, schematics, diagrams, and
>how-to's
>9) All the rest I could probably mention but cant at the
>moment :p
>
>
>
>AK
>
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