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How Heavy Is a Petabyte?

Posted by timothy on from the but-electrons-don't-weigh-anything dept.

Jon Morgan writes "Whilst heaving around numerous data storage systems to sell (they weigh A LOT!), we got to wondering: How heavy is a Petabyte of data storage? Our best guess is 365KG, which is 6 million times lighter than in 1980! But is there a lighter way to store a Petabyte?"

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  1. Re:Minimum mass of a Petabyte by davek · · Score: 0, Troll

    That's exactly what I've been wondering for years: how to connect computer software to physics equations. For example, it seems to me like a "full" drive seems to physically weigh more than a blank one, sort of like a full battery is noticeably heavier than an empty one. I thought that's what the article was about, but instead it was just a bunch of graphics about how many libraries-of-congress can fit in the titanic.

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  2. the 'king' is dead/a fink/what is a fair days pay? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    that may be so, but you wouldn't be able to glean anything from this buyassed article written buy one of the 'new' wave of vapourious talknicians. phewww.

    fuddles may not be the 'king' of anything any longer, butt he still exhibits those gangster 'qualities' that made him the envy of souless greedmongers everywhere.

    http://tech.yahoo.com/news/ap/20090708/ap_on_hi_te/us_tec_google_operating_system