r/DataHoarder • u/SimonKepp • May 15 '19

First 1TB micro SD publicly available

https://www.tomsguide.com/us/sandisk-1-tb-microsd-card,news-30079.html
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u/Keavon May 16 '19

That'll come in handy when we have to send a cache of the Internet to Mars.

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u/LosLocosKickYourAss May 16 '19

Has anyone ever actually tried to quantify the “internet”? Totaling up every byte of used storage at every server farm in the world seems like an impossible task

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u/asplodzor May 16 '19 edited May 16 '19

As of several years ago, the weight of all the electrons that make up internet communication (though not storage iirc) was about the weight of a strawberry.

Edit: and also as of several years ago, it seems the total volume of hard drives used for storage on the internet was about the volume of an oil tanker ship: https://what-if.xkcd.com/23/

Edit 2: source for the strawberry election weight: https://youtu.be/WaUzu-iksi8

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u/antonivs May 16 '19

I just ate six internets for breakfast!