Talk:Exabyte

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The "5 exabytes = all words ever spoken" is mentioned in the executive summary link and other places.[1][2] This may be the source. It is probably worth mentioning as an urban legend. Gimmetrow 00:29, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

Is "5 exabytes" the average count of all words spoken by individual human beings; or the theoretical count by all human beings combined?

What about "all the words written, typed, signed (ie sign-language) etc"? Even if the figure is "pulled out of the air" it does give an indication of the size of the number. Jackiespeel 17:47, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Missing source

Just wanted to leave a heads up that the following source (#11), doesn't link. I tried searching the article on businessweek.com and came up with nothing. If anyone knows of an alternative source, please provide it. Thank you.
Source in question: Bergstein, Brian (March 5, 2007). So much data, relatively little space. BusinessWeek. Retrieved on 2007-03-05. 199.89.64.176 20:32, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

On the bright side, because the reference gives title and author, it is relatively easy to find a copy, for instance, at MSNBC or at ABC. Gimmetrow 23:14, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

Just like to add my two cents regarding exabyte. In a paper published in January 2008 by the Discovery Institute, Estimating the Exaflood. It is estimated that in 2006 the total amount of digital content created worldwide was 161 exabytes. IDC predict that by 2010 988 exabytes of new digital content will be created annually. For example by mid 2007, YouTube was generating around 50 petabytes a month. A high-def YouTube would generate 1 exabyte per month. YouTube and it's competitors are only starting.... —Preceding unsigned comment added by Wirelessab (talk • contribs) 20:49, 11 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] CERN's CASTOR

The automated "summed size" indicator [3] says that CASTOR is storing 16EB, but the human-written text below says that as of 2007 there were only 7PB of data stored in CASTOR. I seriously doubt that CASTOR suddenly expanded by over 1000x in the space of a year. Also it seems that the summed size said above 30EB when User:Gimmetrow accessed the page on April 8, since that's what he wrote in the article. I think a software bug is making the summed size totally off in that display -- most likely a negative 64-bit integer being displayed as an unsigned integer (since 16EB is the address space of a 64-bit integer). I'm therefore removing the mention of CASTOR from the article. Redquark (talk) 19:56, 20 April 2008 (UTC)