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.

Comments

2 million gigabytes of porn

[rsilvergun]

or as a /. user would call it, a good Tuesday night.

Re: 2 million gigabytes of porn

[K. S. Kyosuke]

Remember the time when the Internet fit onto 4736 DVDs, or 3 DVD without the porn?

I don't get it

[alvinrod]

That's so much porn you can't even possibly look at most of it. If you wanted to test Amazon's "unlimited' storage, why not just randomly generate various files. You could probably have a computer make shitty modern art paintings much faster than you could curate a 1 petabyte porn collection, and you still get to test out how much you can store on Amazon's cloud storage service before they pull the plug. And when they invariably do, you won't lose your porn collection.

Assuming there are no repeats

[Anonymous Coward]

All this does is make me realize there's a lot of porn I will never see. And that makes me sad.

Re:Pied Piper will compress that down big time

[orasio]

Pied Piper compression works pretty well on gay porn video.
I've heard it's specially suited for dual jerk off material.

There goes one more nice thing

[Anonymous Coward]

Whether it's unlimited data, unlimited backups, unlimited soup, salad and breadsticks- this is why we can't have nice things. Regardless of motive, people like this ruin for the rest of us.

My other zinger

[TiggertheMad]

'In unrelated news, Amazon announces a new adult streaming service, featuring over 200 million gigabytes of content.'