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		bane on Jan 15, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: 10 petabytes - visualized Amazing, a discussion of data without comparing the internationally accepted unit of "library of congress". I'm more interested in how many LoCs 10 Pb is? If we built a city of LoCs, how many acres would that city be? These are the questions that keep me up late at night.

mdemare on Jan 16, 2011 [–]

The Library of Congress is 10TB. Zipped, it would fit on a single 3TB hard drive.

bane on Jan 16, 2011 | [–]

Perhaps that implies we should start using kiloLoC and megaLoCs?

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