Comments on: What Do 12 Terabytes-Worth of Data Look Like?

By: News Marked

News Marked — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 06:47:33 +0000

Hey nice and creative.
How the hell did you digg up this kind of stuff anyways.
btw. I didn’t get how there are ten brains

By: zackcl

zackcl — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 02:35:05 +0000

In the next couple of years, people will have 12TB hard drives in their desktop computers.

http://www.aevrepair.com/

By: KidB

KidB — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 02:32:02 +0000

12 terebytes really isn’t alot. I have a 2 terebyte hard drive on my home computer.

By: Pyleic

Pyleic — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 02:33:57 +0000

Not to mention it depends on how you /use/ the brain for storage. I mean, why not go the whole way and use genetic storage? Estimates show that you can fit the entire library of congress onto a sperm

By: Josh N

Josh N — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 10:30:16 +0000

How can people tell if 12 tb is 9.6 brains?? I dont think thats very accurate, because as we research more and more about the brain we realise that your memeory capacity keeps on getting bigger, first they thought it was 1tb, then 10tb now people say depending on how much information each brain cell holds, around
100 million megabytes (100tb) Now theyre saying 100-tb to unlimited capacity… The brain is complicated.

By: AvangionQ

AvangionQ — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 12:31:44 +0000

The trouble with more data is that more data isn’t a problem, so long as you have the capacity to absorb it … the `trouble` with more data is that data is searchable, can be sorted and its relatively easy to find what you’re looking for *if* you know what you’re looking for and such data exists in your searchable database …

By: Pete S.

Pete S. — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 18:58:44 +0000

Even better: save a tree, and just dictate the information over the phone to a viacom employee.

By: zarbie

zarbie — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 12:30:23 +0000

And the Viacom lawyers are going to look at 12 Terabytes of youtube videos at Viacom’s expense…
fun job!

By: Jany

Jany — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 07:47:03 +0000

… nevermind…

By: Jany

Jany — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 07:45:57 +0000

um… why does everyone assume that 9.6 brains is accurate? How did they even find that out? It’s not like you can click “save” and brain will say “sorry memory full.” Am I missing something?

By: Lea

Lea — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:44:04 +0000

Alex, your cruelty is too good.

Comic sans and in caps.
*shudder*

By: who and when

who and when — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 11:30:51 +0000

what´s the purpose of analyzing who, where and what ? only thing that comes to my mind is commercial purposes. i sure hope that the .log is made public.. it´s good to know what your neighbour´s r up to :] after ten years of investigating u´ll know she/he likes AC/DC too.

By: Axis of Evil

Axis of Evil — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 06:28:13 +0000

Why draw an axis, if its not to scale? mmmmkkk? wtf is that

otherwise, interesting chart…

By: mark mark

mark mark — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 04:48:02 +0000

Google should just give it in on floppy disks.

By: Shrenik

Shrenik — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 04:35:27 +0000

woww I feel..people here are spending so much of time in calculating and analysing the media and papers and trees…even google/youtube would not take that much of time in accumulating and sending (or may be printing or faxing or watever) the data to viacom!!!

By: subcorpus

subcorpus — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 04:26:43 +0000

you can estimate the power of the brain … ???
i thought we needed a few more years to do that …
guess i was wrong …

By: SDPCH

SDPCH — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 04:20:53 +0000

12 terabytes isnt that much logically, physically that is a lot of media, then what happens to the info?

http://www.sandiegopchelp.com

By: Jamesy

Jamesy — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 03:37:43 +0000

Hey now people, let’s save some trees. I suggest a single PDF document (with background pictures on every page)

By: Petes2cents

Petes2cents — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 02:15:05 +0000

I know it’s a lot of information, but when I first looked at 12 terabytes, it just didn’t sound like much, until I saw the illustration of 1 million phone books, then it sunk in a little.

Sorry, brain fart.

By: Baggins

Baggins — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 01:31:15 +0000

@Wow:

It’s not all the videos, just the server logs. (Who watched what when?)

By: Planet Malaysia

Planet Malaysia — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 01:09:29 +0000

LOL! You’re damm funny.

By: Wow

Wow — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 00:51:47 +0000

I would have guessed it to be a lot more than 12TB. At least a hundred.

I guess it keeps the file size down when you make them all over-compressed and crappy looking. Keeps the bandwidth costs down too.

By: Yasser

Yasser — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 00:49:45 +0000

I’ve never thought about it this way lol

By: Kush

Kush — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 00:11:08 +0000

the brain was recently estimated at 10 terabytes of data

By: DOJ

DOJ — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 22:45:02 +0000

does anyone know why the judge thinks viacom needs at that information?

By: J P

J P — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 21:51:45 +0000

It still means nothing to me. Anything over 3 digits makes me dizzy.

By: Tackeyon

Tackeyon — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 20:35:17 +0000

12 TB faxed on a 2400 baud modem, lol

By: Jethro

Jethro — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 20:15:43 +0000

How long would it take to fax 12 TB of data, now that’s a good question.

By: Dougem

Dougem — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 20:13:36 +0000

Now consider what the serverlog consists of, essentially just text.

9.6 human brains worth of text! that is a TON of data

By: Jethro

Jethro — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 20:12:25 +0000

To make that much paper it would take 7,111,040 cubic feet of wood. Environmentalists would have a freak out about that.

By: Davey McDave

Davey McDave — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 20:11:08 +0000

Why is this even a graph? What is the point of the vertical axis?

By: Satanic Dwarf

Satanic Dwarf — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 20:10:57 +0000

I support Zecc. What a waste of trees that would be. Mat, I know trees are renewable, but it takes 20 years to have a decent size tree…and besides : common, cutting tree just for a stupid lawsuit…

They are talking about digital data, give them some hard drives rather than trees…And we all know that this much paper will either get mixed up, lost, or thrown away over the years. So what’s the point. Hashes can proove no alterations were made to the data, so I stick to 12x1TB hard drives.

BTW, business comment was pretty funny

By: asdf

asdf — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 20:00:53 +0000

what kind of an asshole titles his article “what do 12 terabytes-worth of data look like?” and then makes a graph that has no relevance or scale?

oh, you did.

By: ECA

ECA — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 19:59:49 +0000

Peeves…
forget that…
FAX it to them..Use up THEIR paper..and shipping cost.

By: Johnny

Johnny — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 19:57:51 +0000

Meh, they should hand it all over on human brains! bwa hahaha

By: kc

kc — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 19:55:20 +0000

@unex
The 12TB is just the server log, not all the videos

By: Anon

Anon — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 19:51:32 +0000

“WTF? All Youtube videos and data ONLY 12 TB ? that’s very little in my opinion.”

Wouldn’t it just be just “Video Id”, “User Id”, “User IP”. Not the actual video data.

By: business

business — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 19:39:53 +0000

That’s cool. I have more knowledge than a 200gb harddisk

By: pyroape

pyroape — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 19:34:34 +0000

I second the paper thing, only “accidentally” have a breeze blow it around and leave them unnumbered. Hell, better yet, put it as a torrent in .daa format and only see to 98.9%. I’d gladly help seed a 1 terabyte chunk… at least some of it.

By: unex

unex — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 19:34:28 +0000

WTF? All Youtube videos and data ONLY 12 TB ? that’s very little in my opinion.

By: Josh

Josh — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 19:32:01 +0000

‘Data’ is plural. It should read “What *do* twelve terabytes of data look like?” not “What *does* twelve terabytes of data look like?” Grammar counts, especially for grammar nazis.

By: Jeff Kee

Jeff Kee — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 19:29:15 +0000

How long would it be in voice recording? “Row two hundred and thirty eight thousand nine hundred forty two, video id tag nine Y X Z four D U Z 2 C K viewed by userid two thousand foorteen….”

By: violet

violet — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 19:28:20 +0000

Re grammar: “of data” is not at issue. The determining phrase is “12 terabytes-worth.”

If the terabytes were considered plural rather than a mass of information, the plural construction would be fine. But it’s actually “terabytes-worth,” which is a singular concept. It’s the worth that is the problem. If you dropped it, you could argue either way, I think.

By: Mat

Mat — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 19:25:18 +0000

Zecc,

We grow trees, they are renewable.

By: RyanL

RyanL — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 19:18:42 +0000

That’s a decent representation, but how many Libraries of Congress will 12TB hold?

By: gabriel

gabriel — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 19:11:31 +0000

Power to the People. Damn Viacom!
Here’s the Top 10 List – The People’s Response TO Viacoms Lawsuit Against YouTube Inc.

http://www.techxiety.com/techxiety/2008/07/techxietys-top-ten-list—the -peoples-response-to-viacoms-lawsuit-against-youtube-inc.html

By: Christophe

Christophe — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 19:02:44 +0000

“I’d like to see them turn in 9.6 human brains”

I really LOLed on this one

By: MrsBug

MrsBug — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 17:58:23 +0000

My math might be wrong, but I think that works out to 105,600 boxes of paper (10 reams per box, 5000 sheets per box).

That’s a lot of paper.

By: kid_icarus

kid_icarus — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 16:12:30 +0000

lol on paying damages with pennies!!!! that is hilarious!

By: geoff

geoff — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 16:11:27 +0000

I’d go with the cd’s option. silly viacom.