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Digital Big Bang — 161 Exabytes In 2006

Posted by kdawson on from the had-we-but-world-enough-and-room-to-store-it dept.

An anonymous reader tips us to an AP story on a recent study of how much data we are producing. IDC estimates that in 2006 we created, captured, and replicated 161 exabytes of digital information. The last time anyone tried to estimate global information volume, in 2003, researchers at UC Berkeley came up with 5 exabytes. (The current study tries to account for duplicating data — on the same assumptions as the 2003 study it would have come out at 40 exabytes.) By 2010, according to IDC, we will be producing far more data than we will have room to store, closing in on a zettabyte.

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  1. XXX by daddyrief · · Score: 5, Funny

    And half of that is porn...

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  2. It was only 9 megs by noewun · · Score: 5, Funny

    Without Slashdot dupes.

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  3. Finally, an excuse... by bigforearms · · Score: 5, Funny

    The furry porn gets deleted first.

  4. Sorry, my fault... by slobber · · Score: 5, Funny

    I left cat /dev/urandom running

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  5. Re:How many... by LighterShadeOfBlack · · Score: 5, Funny

    That'd be 1,191,400 Libraries of Congress.

    Honestly, I don't know why the /. editors allow these "scientific articles" that only provide data in these obscure and archaic "byte" measurements. Absurd!

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  6. Must be the space donuts by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    So the sum total of data has increased by a factor of more than 30 since 2003? I knew Brent Spiner was putting on weight, but damn.

  7. Re:How many... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    760 billion episodes of anime.In other words, about half the length of a typical Dragonball Z fight scene.

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