Liam ProvenAug 5, 2023

Get a sense of scale for computer storage...

Byte of data: a grain of rice
Kilobyte: a cup of rice
Megabyte: 8 bags of rice
Gigabyte: 3 container lorries
Terabyte: 2 container ships
Petabyte: covers Manhattan
Exabyte: covers the UK (3 times)
Zettabyte: fills the Pacific Ocean

Original source of the comparison, for the record: https://www.slideshare.net/dwellman/what-is-big-data-24401517

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Show threadIan StuartAug 5, 2023
@lproven Sorry but I did some math on the byte to kilobyte comparison. 1000 grains of rice is nowhere near enough for a cup. I’m assuming we aren’t talking cooked rice (but even then…). Perhaps if instead a bit is a grain of rice then a kilobyte could be a cup of rice.
Show threadLiam Proven

@IanStuart Others did the same; note, this is not my set of comparisons.

https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/34250/is-this-measurement-of-data-to-grains-of-rice-accurate

Is this measurement of data to grains of rice accurate?

This image purports that you can measure data in grains of rice - one byte being one grain of rice and one gigabyte then being three container lorries. Byte of data : one grain of rice Kilobyt...

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