Pretty Interesting

Kirk · Post by **Kirk** » Thu Mar 27, 2008 9:38 pm

That actually is... impressive.

DEEhunter · Post by **DEEhunter** » Thu Mar 27, 2008 9:52 pm

Really makes you think.... Soon there are gonna be exabytes of informations traveling from planet to planet.

Geo · Post by **Geo** » Fri Mar 28, 2008 2:51 am

DEEhunter wrote:Really makes you think.... Soon there are gonna be exabytes of informations traveling from planet to planet.

On what basis is that?

Cuda · Post by **Cuda** » Fri Mar 28, 2008 3:10 am

or Exabyte Hard drives. That'd be the day. Think how long it'd take to fill that up.

{TP}Spartan · Post by **{TP}Spartan** » Fri Mar 28, 2008 3:34 am

Cuda wrote:or Exabyte Hard drives. That'd be the day. Think how long it'd take to fill that up.

Years? maybe a century?

SHOUTrvb · Post by **SHOUTrvb** » Fri Mar 28, 2008 6:03 am

So if I'm ever asked how much all the information in the world weighs, I can reply: "roughly 2 ounces".

Yodel · Post by **Yodel** » Fri Mar 28, 2008 8:18 am

{TP}Spartan wrote:
Cuda wrote:or Exabyte Hard drives. That'd be the day. Think how long it'd take to fill that up.
Years? maybe a century?

I doubt it. I think that video/game/other software will become more complex or intricate (and thus larger)as computers become faster and have more HD space.

Also, according to Moore's Law, the amount of transistors (and assumably hard drive space)that you can fit in a given area doubles every 18 months. Thus, we can figure out how long it will be until 1 EX hard drives.

Let's start with one of those HUGE 1TB hard drives.

1 Exabyte=1024 Terabytes.

In 18 months that 1TB will be 2 Terabytes.
In 36 months that 2TB will be 4 Terabytes.
In 54 months that 4TB will be 8TB
In 72 months that 8TB will be 16TB
In 90 months that 16TB will be 32TB
In 108 months that 32TB will be 64TB
In 126 months that 64TB will be 128TB
In 144 months that 128TB will be 256TB
In 162 months that 256TB will be 512TB
In 180 months that 512 Terabytes will be 1 Exabyte

180 Months = 15 Years

So, by following Moore's Law, we can determine that it will take 15 years for a hard drive of one Exabyte to develop. This may or may not be accurate, as there may be a robot rebellion by then.

[EDIT]

Oh jeez. That amounts to one petabyte, not one Exabyte.

That means that a hard drive of one Exabyte would take around 30 years

That will definitely be after the robots inherit the Earth.

shadowkhas · Post by **shadowkhas** » Fri Mar 28, 2008 6:32 pm

Moore's Law is more of a guideline that happens to work.

Yodel · Post by **Yodel** » Fri Mar 28, 2008 7:06 pm

shadowkhas wrote:Moore's Law is more of a guideline that happens to work.

Well, that's what they said about the Pirate's Code! But if you call it guidelines, you better watch out.