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More than likely some will know this but,
Do you know what a Petabyte is? It's a lot of data! 1 GB is the same as 1024 MB but 1 petabyte is equivalent to 1024 terabytes!
1 PB hard drive could hold 13.3 years of HD-1tv video.
A 50 PB hard drive could hold the entire written works of mankind, from the beginning of recorded history, in all languages!
Just thought you might want to know this. :devilgrin:

Oh, I forgot to ad, you can buy one for the cheap price of. $495,000! Thrilling to know they have them in stock! :thumbsup2:
 
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Never heard of a petabyte until now! Altho' I think my pet cat did that many times.

For a history lesson, back in the day, a 10 Meg external hard drive for a PC cost between $800 and $1000. Now a 32 Gig flash drive runs around $10.
 
Petabyte1,000 terabytes
Exabyte1,000 petabytes
Zettabyte1,000 exabytes
Yottabyte1,000 zettabytes

Ill wait till the thumb drive version comes out in a few years, they will be as cheep as chips
 
I currently have a 1/2 terabyte thumb I use to carry my music around with me, has around 4000 individual songs, albums and live concerts and still isn't quite full. I have a 14tb external drive I use for tv shows, full seasons and full runs, as well as movies from the 20s on that I want to have around rather than dig up when I might want to see one. Takes time to get it all built, but much easier than digging through piles of dvds to find something.
 
mikephillips said:
I currently have a 1/2 terabyte thumb I use to carry my music around with me, has around 4000 individual songs, albums and live concerts and still isn't quite full. I have a 14tb external drive I use for tv shows, full seasons and full runs, as well as movies from the 20s on that I want to have around rather than dig up when I might want to see one. Takes time to get it all built, but much easier than digging through piles of dvds to find something.
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I had a 1 or 2 TB NAS drive. Got all my music on it and many DVDs - and it died. 🤬 . Don't have the ambition to start again. Oh and if your backup drive starts having issues booting up don't think to yourself 'I'll worry about it next time.' Don't ask me how I know.
 
I have a 1TB micro SD, i got it for a gopro i use to covertly video my daughter in her shows.
but it was not fast enough and the gopro would lock up. so just use it as a back up device
on a foot note i personaly think the gopro is somewhat lacking in every way.
 
I have a 1 TB drive I use to back up my computer once a month. I will download the photos from my phone onto my computer, and then I will upload anything new from my computer (music, photos, etc.) to my backup drive. It can take a little time, and I do occasionally forget, in which case, I have two months to upload. While it can be tedious it ensures that all of my files are in two places in case one or the other goes down.
 
How much space would it take to store Einstein's theory of relativity. :devilgrin:
 
JPSmit said:
I had a 1 or 2 TB NAS drive. Got all my music on it and many DVDs - and it died. 🤬 . Don't have the ambition to start again. Oh and if your backup drive starts having issues booting up don't think to yourself 'I'll worry about it next time.' Don't ask me how I know.
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I do actually have a second drive to serve as backup, just in case the thumb fails. As a 45y IT guy, I've seen failures and loss before in corporate environments, so minimize the odds where you can, and storage is fairly cheap anymore. Just don't drop a drive if it is an actual disc device, will damage the moving parts most likely.
 
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