musings of wrath

the following is a geek moment. enjoy.

With a 56K modem, it would take 4 years, 357 days, 23 hours, 24 minutes and 49 seconds to download 1 TB (Terabyte).

Change that to 800 TBs, and it becomes 3486 years, 192 days, 21 hours, 39 minutes, and 37 seconds.

And to think, we’re well on our way to DASD (data storage) of the EB (Exabyte) magnitude.

(1 EB = 1,000,000 TBs)

1 EB would take 4,980,755 years, 38 minutes, and 5 seconds.

If you were to start a download @ 56k at midnight, new years day 2004 (CST for those who need that kinda detail), it would be completed at 12:38:05 am, January 1st, the year 4,982,759 AD.

I don’t know about you, but I don’t plan on being awake.

All this is assuming you have a perfect connection, and that you aren’t using your bandwidth for anything else.

It would still take 1,089,500+ years on Cable/T1.

And a measly 27 years on an OC192 (10 gigabit)…

in-friggen-sane.

And in happier news - a Terabyte will only take 14 minutes 39 seconds on an OC 192.

neat. I want one. I want a wireless one.

numero-phile.

Peh.

well, I didn’t want to mention the name for 1,000 Terabytes - 1 Pedabyte.

heh.

so what do we call a fragment of 1,000 Terabytes? a peda-file.

Classic.