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A User Archived Nearly 2 Million Gigabytes of Porn to Test Amazon's 'Unlimited' Cloud Storage (vice.com)
An anonymous reader shares a report: Reddit user beaston02 was determined to find the true ceiling of Amazon's cloud storage plan, which was killed off in June. He decided to push its limits with a petabyte of porn. For reference, a petabyte is one million gigabytes. "It is nearly entirely porn," he told me in a Reddit message. "Ever since I got into computers, I found myself learning more, and faster when it was something more interesting. Call me crazy, but women interest me more than most other things on the internet and there is a huge amount of data being created daily, so it was a good fit for the project." He said it took five or six months to collect one petabyte of porn, and he stopped collecting just shy of 1.8 petabytes. How long would it take one to consume 1.8 petabytes of porn? 1.8 petabytes is about 23.4 years of HD-TV video, but webcam streams are nowhere near that quality. A few good folks crunched the numbers: 720p is about two gigabytes per hour, and at 900,000 hours, that's 102 years of straight calendar time. If the videos are even lower quality, say, 480p, that's around 0.7 gigabytes per hour, or 293 years and six months.
or as a /. user would call it, a good Tuesday night.
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Imagine a grave stone that instead of an eternal flame there is an eternal stream of porn on a small display. The location may be problematic for the viewer to fully enjoy though.
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All this does is make me realize there's a lot of porn I will never see. And that makes me sad.
Pied Piper compression works pretty well on gay porn video.
I've heard it's specially suited for dual jerk off material.
"But not nearly as interesting as the assorted women parts I have archived in my basement freezer," he continued.
"That's so much porn you can't even possibly look at most of it. "
You don't have multiple monitors and split screen's for dozens of concurrent streams when looking at porn?
Fucken amateur.
'In unrelated news, Amazon announces a new adult streaming service, featuring over 200 million gigabytes of content.'
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