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Re: How much is one terabyte of data?

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> The high-speed SSD reads 300 megabytes of data per second Aren't normal SSDs now at 500-600MB/s read? And then there are nvme SSDs which can read up to 7GB/s

I've never seen an SSD as slow as 300MB/s. My first SSD from a decade ago was over 500MB/s sequential read.

Re: How much is one terabyte of data?

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From Groq using Llama 2 70b: To calculate the volume of space required to contain the world's population, we need to first convert the area calculated earlier to square feet.

Area (square feet) = 600 square miles × 5,280 square feet/square mile = 3,160,000,000 square feet

Next, we need to assume a height at which the population can comfortably stand. Let's assume an average height of 5 feet.

Volume = Area (square feet) × Height (feet) Volume = 3,160,000,000 square feet × 5 feet Volume = 15,800,000,000 cubic feet

Now, we need to convert the volume from cubic feet to cubic miles. There are 1,476,333,333 cubic feet in a cubic mile, so:

Volume (cubic miles) = Volume (cubic feet) ÷ 1,476,333,333 Volume (cubic miles) = 15,800,000,000 ÷ 1,476,333,333 Volume (cubic miles) = 10.7 cubic miles

Therefore, to contain the entire world population, we would need a volume of approximately 10.7 cubic miles, assuming an average height of 5 feet and a density similar to that of a solid object.

Please note that this calculation is purely theoretical and doesn't take into account factors like personal space, comfort, and actual population density.

Re: How much is one terabyte of data?

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From Groq using Llama 2 70b: To calculate the volume of space required to contain the world's population, we need to first convert the area calculated earlier to square feet. Area (square feet) = 600 square miles × 5,280 square feet/square mile = 3,160,000,000 square feet Next, we need to assume a height at which the population can comfortably stand. Let's assume an average height of 5 feet. Volume = Area (square fee…

Please don't just paste AI-generated summaries into a low-effort comment. I don't know why your summary only picked up on the first half of the first paragraph, but estimating global population volume has nothing to do with the article.

Also, even taking the assumptions at face value, your model's calculations are wrong by several orders of magnitude. There are not 5,280 square feet in one square mile and 600*5280 is not 3,160,000,000.

Re: How much is one terabyte of data?

#35
I think it should also be pointed out that a lot of DB's have a lot of redundant data due to indexing. When your DB is small, an index seems negligible, but once you get into millions or even billions of rows, you see first hand just how much space they can take up.

Re: How much is one terabyte of data?

#36

From Groq using Llama 2 70b: To calculate the volume of space required to contain the world's population, we need to first convert the area calculated earlier to square feet. Area (square feet) = 600 square miles × 5,280 square feet/square mile = 3,160,000,000 square feet Next, we need to assume a height at which the population can comfortably stand. Let's assume an average height of 5 feet. Volume = Area (square fee…

If you weren't concerned with preserving life, you could take the current population of Earth, multiply by the average weight of a human (69kg according to Wolfram Alpha's sources), assume that we have the same density as water, and find that we could all fit in a 0.5km³ box.

Re: How much is one terabyte of data?

#37

  But for a city wide or even some state wide institutions, it (300rps) is really a big number.

Well, I laughed. It is common for monitoring infrastructure to poll at the minute-range, and to have dozens of probes per server. 300 is really few for a whole company

Re: How much is one terabyte of data?

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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zettabyte_Era

> The Zettabyte Era or Zettabyte Zone[1] is a period of human and computer science history that started in the mid-2010s. The precise starting date depends on whether it is defined as when the global IP traffic first exceeded one zettabyte, which happened in 2016, or when the amount of digital data in the world first exceeded a zettabyte, which happened in 2012. A zettabyte is a multiple of the unit byte that measures digital storage, and it is equivalent to 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 (1021) bytes.

> According to Cisco Systems, an American multinational technology conglomerate, the global IP traffic achieved an estimated 1.2 zettabytes (an average of 96 exabytes (EB) per month) in 2016. Global IP traffic refers to all digital data that passes over an IP network which includes, but is not limited to, the public Internet. The largest contributing factor to the growth of IP traffic comes from video traffic (including online streaming services like Netflix and YouTube).

Re: How much is one terabyte of data?

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A couple of AAA games ٩(ఠ益ఠ)۶

Really wish games would give you a "cleanup" option in the settings. If I'm only going to use the Ultra textures it could delete all the others, and same for if someone is only going to use Medium, etc.

As much as I want to be able to un-select game modes, ultra textures, and foreign language audio, this would increase complexity and QA required.
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